Mike moved to Marble Falls, Texas, in May 2024. He is still writing and teaching in this new venue. Mike published a book of political/social issues poetry, just before the presidential election. The title is Nightmareica. You can find it on Amazon and this website. Mike also now hosts a monthly poetry program at the…
Mike hosted and performed poetry for the patrons of the Stir Crazy Bakery on Fort Worth’s Magnolia Street last night, Oct 21. Spooky poetry was the theme of the reading, to prepare the crowd for Halloween. A great time was had by all, and many of the audience read poems as well. If you haven’t…
Mike has been nominated for Texas Poet Laureate for the third time (hope third time is the charm!). Mike has been a serious public poet for over 50 years, has published 5 full books of poetry and several chapbooks. His poetry has appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies. He has presented poetry readings and…
Mike’s new high adventure novel, Neanderthal Gita, is now available on Amazon and at Atmosphere Press as well as this website. Neanderthal Gita was five years in the writing, because it also required extensive research into new findings about Neanderthals and the exotic location of the novel, Kashmir, India. I believe you will find the…
Mike presented his newest poetry seminar, 13 Ways of Looking At Poetry, at the Waco Wordfest on October 16, 2021. Attendees were impressed by how insights from neuroscience can improve their poetic skills. The seminar uses both images and text to demonstrate Mike’s 13 concepts about poetry. The seminar is now available to view free…
Take a look at Mike’s newest poetry book, The Sublime Landscape and Beyond, just out from Shanti Arts Press. It is the result of a collaboration between Mike and his longtime friend, artist Johnny Bowen. The book consists of 40 paintings by Bowen with a poem written for each by Mike. There are also comments…
I just published a 2nd edition of my book of poems on Asian art prints. It has the same title as the first edition: Birds, Beasts, & Blossoms, but it is in a larger, 6×9 format, and, at 140 pages, includes 12 new images and poems. The book is available either from my website (signed)…
In September of 2020, a team of American astro-physicists detected phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. Phosphine is primarily produced by bacteria. In fact, Earth’s clouds contain vast amounts of bacteria that produce phosphine too. Knowing that, I wrote a science-fiction story, Venus Rising, for my book, Surpassing Strange, in 2016. The story follows a…