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All the talent. Introducing Award-winning poet Michael Steffen who will be featured in a reading/ book signing as part of this week’s Express Yourself on the Mic  with Miss Mabeline in Erie, PA on Friday, January 21st at 7:30 PM.  Michael will read from his recently-published collection, Blood Narrative (Main Street Rag Press, 2021). 

 

Praise for Michael Steffen’s Poetry

 

These warm, generous, and lively poems speak to the narrative of body and spirit, of family, marriage, community and culture, as they come to terms with past and present losses. They do it best by living in the present, grateful for the whole of every moment—luscious, embarrassing, lonely, or loving, reveling in the sensual. Steffen’s capacity to surprise with sudden humor or beauty or truth infuses every poem, reminding us to live fully, because “somewhere offshore in the eye of apocalypse,/angels raise their trumpets—” as I raise mine, to this wonderful blood narrative.

- April Ossmann (author of Event Boundaries)

 

Michael Steffen is the author of three previous poetry collections: No Good at Sea (Legible Press, 2002) won the Legible Press Poetry Prize.  Heart Murmur (Bordighera Press, 2009) won the Bordighera Poetry Prize, appearing as a bilingual edition in both Italian and English.  His third collection, Bad Behavior (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2012), won the Brick Road Poetry Prize.  While a resident of Pennsylvania, Michael was granted a 2002 Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.  His poems have appeared in literary publications such as Poetry, Potomac Review, Chiron Review, Poet Lore and the American Journal of Poetry.  He has read and lectured widely, been a mentor in the PEN Prison Writing Program and curated the Riverside Reading Series in Easton, PA for several years, hosting many outstanding poets such as Meg Kearney, Daisey Fried, Craig Czury, Len Roberts and Gerald Stern, to name a few.  Please go to www.mnsteffen.com for further biographical information & instructions on how to purchase books. #poet #writer #word #artist #wordartist Masks  required for this event. Reach out to @mabel.wordartist or call  814-572-0985 with any questions. #OpenMic