Michael Allyn Wells

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. ~ Amy Lowell

"Only poetry recognises and maintains the centrality of absolutely everywhere." Les Murray, Krino no. 18, 1995

"A writer who keeps a personal diary uses it to record what he knows. In his poems or stories he sets down what he doesn't know....

"After a certain age, a poet's main rival is the poet he used to be." - William Logan Paranus 27, nos. 1 & 2

"A good erotic poem will express desire, incite desire" - Smita Agarwal, Poetry Review , Winter 2000-2001

"Trying to write a good poem is like running off a cliff to see if you can fly. Most of the time you can't, but every once and a wh...