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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!

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

B: Ann E. Michael: poems, links

Two of my poems in Sierra Nevada Review
Five poems in Mezzo Cammin
Two poems in Poemeleon's "Truth/y" issue (2020)
Three ekphrastic poems, Unleash Lit
"Siren for Somebody Else"
Poem in HelenLitMag
"Snow on Annie's Painting"
Interview in Inflectionist Review
Poem in About Place "trees" theme issue.
Poem "Zen Gold"
Two poems in The Pine Cone Review
"Bach & Birdsong" in Spring 2024 of Gyroscope Review
Poem in Umbrella Journal: "Wondrous Strange" theme
"Bright Satellite" appearing in A Quiet Courage online
A Haibun in CHO
Review of Water-Rites by Brian Fanelli (Pank magazine)
ChillSubs author page
My article on university libraries (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
"Patchwork," a cadralor poem in Gleam no. 9
Poem in qarrtsiluni (with audio!)
Poem in Carbon Culture Review
Reflections on Cosmic Events
"Eel River Meditation" in Streetlight Magazine
Review of Barefoot Girls chapbook
Women's Poetry Timeline entry: Nansorhon (Korean poet)
"The Journalist" in Philadelphia Stories
Poem for my Father: "Arc of the Moral Universe, Bending toward Justice"
Poem in Independent Variable
The Ekphrastic Review, a poem I wrote on a Remedios Varo painting
"Just Call Me Mom" 2001 newspaper column
Still more poetry in Umbrella Journal
Two poems in Inlandia journal
Ekphrastic review: My haibun about a Buddhist stele
"The Moment Calls Me to Happiness" – Eunoia Review
"Passover" in One Art
"Depth Cognition" in ballast 1.2
"Love Descends on Me" in About Place: Practices of Hope
Four poems at Quill & Parchment
A poem in Red Eft Review
Prose poem in Prairie Schooner online
Peacock Journal: three poems by Ann E. Michael
My poem "The Cockroaches"–with a baritone audio reading…
Seven poems featured in Syzygy Journal
Three poems in SNReview
"The Birthmark" (a poem)
"Spiralings" – a cadralor in Gleam
"Moment of Hilarity, Hospice Unit"
"This Poem Is Not Out to Offend Anyone."
"Everyday Syntax" in Country Dog Review
"About Reverence" in About Place journal
"Verge & Exodus," a poem
"As Yet No Efts: A Spring Song" in, appropriately, Red Eft Review!
"The Swimmer" –a poem in SVJA
Poems in Mezzo Cammin vol. 3
Editor's Choice award, Sheila-na-gig,my poem "Grieving Man"
Review & Interview: Barefoot Girls, on Lesley Wheeler's Virtual Salon
"The Turquoise Urn" in Two Hawks Quarterly
"Settle into Joy" poem at Highland Park Poetry
poem, "A Fine Strange Thing"@ One Art
"Gratitude" poem in Barren Magazine
Two poems in Mezzo Cammin's Summer 2025 issue
"Assurances" — flash fiction piece
Poem in qarrtsiluni (also with audio!)
The Triggering Tune: Springsteen Songs as “Places” of Inspiration for Poetry
Four poems in Lothlorien
Two short poems in Amazine
"Come In!" (poem, in Glint Lit. Jnl)
Poem in One Art
"Horsewomen" (this poem appears in The Capable Heart)
Mother-Rhythms essay
Bookends Review–Ian Haight interviews me about humanities, arts residencies, AI and poetry
My poem "The Poets of Miami Beach"
Passo della Morte in WordPeace
My essay on reviewing 'experimental' poetry
p. 51 in Calendula Review, a journal of narrative medicine
"Fevered" in Philadelphia Stories
Antiphon poetry magazine #17: A poem of mine on page 21
"Syntax & Event Horizon"
Three poems in Verse-Virtual
My Christopher Smart tribute "In Jubilate Pueris" (qarrtsiluni's Imitation-themed issue) with audio
Poems in Umbrella Journal
"Small Rocks." One Art.
Interview with Ian Haight, by Ann E. Michael
A cadralor poem in Gleam 8.
"Domum [domi contineris]," a poem about home, appears in Viral Imaginations
Poem in qarrtsiluni (with audio!)
"Sins of Omission" CMR's Justice issue
Poets of Miami Beach: an environmental poem
"Along the Byways" in Poetry as Promised
ONE ART journal's "In a Nutshell" micro-poems online anthology
Poems in Mezzo Cammin vol. 2
My Pushcart-nominated cadralor poem in Gleam:Journal of the Cadralor
Red-Eared Sliders poem in Red Eft Review
Dawn Leas reviews Water-Rites in PQ
"Beauty in Failure," a poem about 18th-c naturalist John Bartram
Interview: Ann E. Michael (Highland Park Poetry, Jennifer Dotson)
Three poems in Verse-Virtual
"Interpreting the Conversation…" Stick Figure Poetry
"Tekton" poem, in The Ekphrastic Review
"Luna, Paloma" from Abundance/Diminishment
"Cup of Reeling" in WORDPEACE
Essay in PQ: "Is Poetry Therapeutic?"
"Deity's Diary" in Braided Way
Poem in Juniper
"Ancient History" and two other poems (scroll)
Two poems in River Heron Review
A haibun in Drifting Sands, see p. 21
Poem for Saint Agnes in Cider Press Review
prose poem in Spoon River Poetry Review
2006 newspaper article about Ann E. Michael
Three of my poems appear in Pensive (see p 195)
Antiphon Issue 22, in which two of my poems appear
"Wet Summers" prose poem in River Heron Review
"Plague Morning" in Global Poemic
"Flurries" in Blood Tree Literature
Poets & Writers directory listing
"Unwelcome" –poem in One Art Journal of Poetry
"Brief History of Kyiv" in Scoundrel Time
Two poems in Kosmos Journal
Prose poem "Exploratory Mechanisms" in Spoon River Review
My poem "Readiness" in Amazine
BCTV interview with Ann E. Michael–Poet's Pause
Two poems in North of Oxford
Four poems in EIL
"Claims She Makes" –poem in AntiHeroinChic
"Markings," a poem–Wild Goose Poetry Review, spring 2018
"Tulips for Barbara" and audiofile@ The Maynard
Two new poems in One Art (Sept. 2026)
Childhood dreams (2001 newspaper column essay)
An explication of my poem "River by River"
My poem "Jesus Has Nothing to Say to the Aged" in this issue of Persimmon Tree
VirtualArtistsCollective review of Water-Rites
Two poems in Loch Raven Review
Dave Bonta reviews "The Capable Heart"
"If Only" in Painted Bride Qtly

C: Reviews

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

D: Websites of interest & videos to check out

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

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