Michael Lee is a Norwegian-American writer, youth worker, and organizer. He has received grants and scholarships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the LOFT Literary Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Winner of the Scotti Merrill Award for poetry from the Key West Literary Seminar, his poetry has appeared in Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel, and Best New Poets 2018 among others.
Michael has worked as a dishwasher, a farmhand, a teaching artist, a social studies teacher, and case manager for youth experiencing homelessness. He is currently an MFA candidate in English Literature and Creative Writing at Cornell University and splits his time between Ithaca, NY and North Minneapolis. His first book, The Only Worlds We Know (Button Poetry) is now available.
For booking: Michaelleepoet@gmail.com
Michael has worked as a dishwasher, a farmhand, a teaching artist, a social studies teacher, and case manager for youth experiencing homelessness. He is currently an MFA candidate in English Literature and Creative Writing at Cornell University and splits his time between Ithaca, NY and North Minneapolis. His first book, The Only Worlds We Know (Button Poetry) is now available.
For booking: Michaelleepoet@gmail.com
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The Only Worlds We Know is, as Michael Lee writes, an “act of remembering like sharpening a blade until the blade is gone.” Memory is shaped with a resolve that is without resolution in these moving marvelous poems. They beautifully track what happens when unspeakable grief refuses to be silent: erasures map "the grammar of mourning," bullets blossom into seeds, and tender elegies blossom into resilient odes alerting us to the world. |