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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!

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

B: Ann E. Michael: poems, links

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

C: Reviews

My review of April Lindner's 2012 book in Fox Chase Review
Review of Georgiou's Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants
My review of Robin Kemp's "This Pagan Heaven"
Review of Linnea Johnson's Augury
I review R.S. Gwynn's collection Dogwatch
My review of Zara Raab's "Swimming the Eel"
My review of Alfred Encarnacion's book "The Outskirts of Karma"
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

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

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