Michael Klein

Congrats to Michael Klein

by Poetry Blog Editors March 1, 2011 Poems News Events

Michael Klein’s book has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award! Buy the book at and read THEthe’s review by Genevieve Burger-Weiser here.

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C.D. Wright’s Masterpiece

by Michael Klein December 20, 2010 Poetry and Poetics

~ The way I see it, history as a subject reads best when it is both documented and re-imagined (In Cold Blood, Ragtime, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men come immediately to mind); when a literary revelation emerges as a result of source material from the scene and from the bigger world get all mixed [...]

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A Study in Fixation

by Michael Klein November 1, 2010 Poetry
Dorothea Lasky’s POETRY IS NOT A PROJECT or Cutting More Lines in the Cosmic Divide

Almost every poem in Matthew Zapruder’s third book, Come On All You Ghosts (a statement that is both joke and plea) starts with the word today or implies it with a declaration involving an observation almost generic in sound and meaning: “Today a ladybug flew through the window. I was reading” “Today in El Paso [...]

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Scotch Wave of Light

by Genevieve Burger-Weiser October 18, 2010 Reviews

new book of poetry, , is a metaphysical meditation on identity through time and the search for the real amidst ghosts, memories, and illusory images. As in the artful illusions of theatre and movies, to which Klein alludes frequently, lighting can change everything in these poems—here people darken or there is an overwhelming bomb-blast of [...]

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Michael Klein’s New Poetry Book, Upcoming Readings

by Micah Towery October 1, 2010 Poems News Events
Things to Know, Celebrate, Cherish:

Heads up for Michael Klein’s new book of poetry, , which will drop this Friday, October 15. Here is a list of upcoming readings for Michael in the NYC area. Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 7PM David Groff, Michael Klein, and Elaine Sexton City College 135th Street and Convent Avenue New York, NY Monday, November 8, [...]

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