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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!

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

B: Ann E. Michael: poems, links

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

C: Reviews

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

D: Websites of interest & videos to check out

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

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