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Tai chi

Apr28 by Ann E. Michael

Beside cherry trees
friends practice tai chi
petals in their hair

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A: Please, buy some books!

Strange Ladies, a chapbook of poems
I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poets of Ohio
Highland Park Poetry "Road Trips" anthology
My Amazon author page
Barefoot Girls–chapbook (2020)
Abundance/Diminishment, Kelsay Books (2024)
The Minor Fauna, chapbook by Ann E. Michael
Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses (poetry anthology)
Birdsong Anthology: Poems in Celebration of Birds
The Capable Heart, Small Things Rise & Go; FootHills chapbooks by Ann E. Michael
Water-Rites, a collection of poems (2012) by Ann E. Michael
The Red Queen Hypothesis & other poems
Common Wealth: An anthology of Pennsylvania Poets
More Than Shelter chapbook by Ann E. Michael
Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania; ed. Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple

B: Ann E. Michael: poems, links

ONE ART journal's "In a Nutshell" micro-poems online anthology
Dawn Leas reviews Water-Rites in PQ
My poem "The Cockroaches"–with a baritone audio reading…
Peacock Journal: three poems by Ann E. Michael
"Small Rocks." One Art.
Interview: Ann E. Michael (Highland Park Poetry, Jennifer Dotson)
"Brief History of Kyiv" in Scoundrel Time
A Haibun in CHO
"If Only" in Painted Bride Qtly
"Siren for Somebody Else"
Poem in HelenLitMag
"Beauty in Failure," a poem about 18th-c naturalist John Bartram
Prose poem "Exploratory Mechanisms" in Spoon River Review
"Domum [domi contineris]," a poem about home, appears in Viral Imaginations
2006 newspaper article about Ann E. Michael
Poets & Writers directory listing
Prose poem in Prairie Schooner online
"Horsewomen" (this poem appears in The Capable Heart)
"Eel River Meditation" in Streetlight Magazine
Poems in Umbrella Journal
Poem for Saint Agnes in Cider Press Review
Dave Bonta reviews "The Capable Heart"
Editor's Choice award, Sheila-na-gig,my poem "Grieving Man"
"Cup of Reeling" in WORDPEACE
"The Birthmark" (a poem)
Poem "Zen Gold"
"Come In!" (poem, in Glint Lit. Jnl)
Two poems in Poemeleon's "Truth/y" issue (2020)
ChillSubs author page
"About Reverence" in About Place journal
"The Swimmer" –a poem in SVJA
A haibun in Drifting Sands, see p. 21
Three of my poems appear in Pensive (see p 195)
VirtualArtistsCollective review of Water-Rites
"Tekton" poem, in The Ekphrastic Review
My poem "Readiness" in Amazine
The Triggering Tune: Springsteen Songs as “Places” of Inspiration for Poetry
"Patchwork," a cadralor poem in Gleam no. 9
"Sins of Omission" CMR's Justice issue
p. 51 in Calendula Review, a journal of narrative medicine
Poems in Mezzo Cammin vol. 3
Poem in qarrtsiluni (with audio!)
"This Poem Is Not Out to Offend Anyone."
"Snow on Annie's Painting"
My Pushcart-nominated cadralor poem in Gleam:Journal of the Cadralor
"Fevered" in Philadelphia Stories
Poets of Miami Beach: an environmental poem
"Interpreting the Conversation…" Stick Figure Poetry
"Everyday Syntax" in Country Dog Review
Poem in About Place "trees" theme issue.
Two poems in Inlandia journal
Review of Water-Rites by Brian Fanelli (Pank magazine)
Poem in qarrtsiluni (with audio!)
Essay in PQ: "Is Poetry Therapeutic?"
"Markings," a poem–Wild Goose Poetry Review, spring 2018
My poem "The Poets of Miami Beach"
Two poems in Loch Raven Review
"Flurries" in Blood Tree Literature
Interview with Ian Haight, by Ann E. Michael
Three poems in Verse-Virtual
"Verge & Exodus," a poem
Red-Eared Sliders poem in Red Eft Review
Still more poetry in Umbrella Journal
Four poems in Lothlorien
"Claims She Makes" –poem in AntiHeroinChic
Interview in Inflectionist Review
Poem in Juniper
Poem in One Art
Three ekphrastic poems, Unleash Lit
My article on university libraries (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
My Christopher Smart tribute "In Jubilate Pueris" (qarrtsiluni's Imitation-themed issue) with audio
prose poem in Spoon River Poetry Review
"Depth Cognition" in ballast 1.2
"Tulips for Barbara" and audiofile@ The Maynard
Mother-Rhythms essay
Review & Interview: Barefoot Girls, on Lesley Wheeler's Virtual Salon
"Gratitude" poem in Barren Magazine
Poem in Independent Variable
Five poems in Mezzo Cammin
poem, "A Fine Strange Thing"@ One Art
Poem in Umbrella Journal: "Wondrous Strange" theme
"Assurances" — flash fiction piece
"Luna, Paloma" from Abundance/Diminishment
Passo della Morte in WordPeace
"Along the Byways" in Poetry as Promised
"Syntax & Event Horizon"
Review of Barefoot Girls chapbook
My essay on reviewing 'experimental' poetry
"Settle into Joy" poem at Highland Park Poetry
"The Turquoise Urn" in Two Hawks Quarterly
Poem in Carbon Culture Review
BCTV interview with Ann E. Michael–Poet's Pause
Two poems in North of Oxford
Four poems at Quill & Parchment
Two short poems in Amazine
"Unwelcome" –poem in One Art Journal of Poetry
Ekphrastic review: My haibun about a Buddhist stele
Two poems in River Heron Review
"The Journalist" in Philadelphia Stories
Two of my poems in Sierra Nevada Review
Childhood dreams (2001 newspaper column essay)
Seven poems featured in Syzygy Journal
Four poems in EIL
"Deity's Diary" in Braided Way
Poems in Mezzo Cammin vol. 2
"Just Call Me Mom" 2001 newspaper column
Antiphon poetry magazine #17: A poem of mine on page 21
The Ekphrastic Review, a poem I wrote on a Remedios Varo painting
"Bach & Birdsong" in Spring 2024 of Gyroscope Review
A poem in Red Eft Review
Two poems in Kosmos Journal
Two poems in The Pine Cone Review
"Wet Summers" prose poem in River Heron Review
Two poems in Mezzo Cammin's Summer 2025 issue
Poem for my Father: "Arc of the Moral Universe, Bending toward Justice"
A cadralor poem in Gleam 8.
"Plague Morning" in Global Poemic
"Passover" in One Art
An explication of my poem "River by River"
Women's Poetry Timeline entry: Nansorhon (Korean poet)
"Love Descends on Me" in About Place: Practices of Hope
Bookends Review–Ian Haight interviews me about humanities, arts residencies, AI and poetry
Three poems in Verse-Virtual
Three poems in SNReview
Poem in qarrtsiluni (also with audio!)
Antiphon Issue 22, in which two of my poems appear
"Bright Satellite" appearing in A Quiet Courage online

C: Reviews

My review of Zara Raab's "Swimming the Eel"
My review of April Lindner's 2012 book in Fox Chase Review
I review R.S. Gwynn's collection Dogwatch
I review Thomas Lux's 'Child Made of Sand'
My review of Alfred Encarnacion's book "The Outskirts of Karma"
My review of Robin Kemp's "This Pagan Heaven"
My review of Ren Powell's "Impermanence"– in Poemeleon
Review of Georgiou's Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants
My review of poetry collections by D. Finnell and J. Thomas
Review of Linnea Johnson's Augury

D: Websites of interest & videos to check out

Mushroom Expert: Glossary of Mycological Terms
Poetry reading: Grant Clauser and I read for Head for the Hills poetry
Brick Road Poetry Press at P & W
Lesley Wheeler's blog
Glossary of Linguistic Terms
Moving Poems: Videopoetry on the web!
Curious biological and botanical nomenclature

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