Michael Spring

Michael Spring

Michael Spring is the author of three poetry collections: blue crow (LitPot press, Inc., 2003) Mudsong (Pygmy Forest Press, 2005) and Root of Lightning (Pygmy Forest Press, 2011). Root of Lightning recently won a 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award honorable mention. Michael was also a top finalist, and winner of a partial scholarship, for a 2012 Luso-American Scholarship to Disquet International in Lisbon, Portugal. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlanta Review, DMQ Review, The Dublin Quarterly, Gavea-Brown, The Midwest Quarterly, and NEO. New poems forthcoming in Cirque, Carnival, Innisfree, LUMMOX, Neon, Spillway and Steelhead Special. Michael lives in O'Brien, OR. He is a natural builder, a martial art instructor, and a poetry editor for The Pedestal Magazine.

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