Michael Dickman was born in Portland, Oregon, and is the author of the poetry collections The End of the West, Green Migraine, and Flies, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is also the coauthor, with his twin brother Matthew Dickman, of the poetry collection 50 American Plays. His poem “Returning to Church” was awarded the 2008 Narrative Prize. He teaches at Princeton University.

Reading His Poetry

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Meditative and playful, Michael Dickman’s poems touch mind and heart, suggesting the meanings that shimmer behind the tangible world. He arouses visions and wonders. At the Seattle Narrative Night, in October 2008, he enchanted us with his originality and with a powerfulness born of the lightest of touch. His work is an intersection of Emerson and Kafka, had Kafka been a soul whose song moved as much on happiness as on sorrow. The readings offered here are those of a signal young poet.

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