Ann E. Michael is Featured Poet for First Thursday Poetry May 4th

Thursday, May 4th
from 6:00 - 7:45 p.m. for
1st Thursday Poetry Open Mic 
at Goggleworks Center for the Arts
201 Washington St., Reading 
 Meeting Place: GoggleWorks Cafe 
berksbards@gmail.com         https://berksbards.blogspot.com/

 May's Featured Poet is Ann E. Michael 

Ann E. Michael is the author of six chapbooks of poetry and one full-length collection, Water-Rites. Her next collection, The Red Queen Hypothesis, won the Prairie State Poetry Prize and will be published later in 2023. She lives in Emmaus, PA. Her website is www.annemichael.blog.

  

Excerpt from “Surveying”

 

…

I love the kingbirds, compact, elegant,

their dark heads poised. They don’t

tussle in cornstalks like finches,

shake the barley, rend the blossoms.

 

Their pale chests shine on rainy

summer days when the world tightens

every brilliant nerve in my spine

and won’t release. Kingbird alights—

 

where’s the terror in letting go?

 

Image: Cover photo of the collection Strange Ladies, a chapbook by Ann E. Michael, published by Moonstone Poetry Aug. 2022.

Open Mic to follow the poetry reading.