Michael Allyn Wells

If you are looking for poets to read this summer I offer you my 2015 Poets Crush List.  These are poets who I presently cannot get enough ...

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.  - W. S. Merwin

A few bits of interesting facts you may not know about the next Poet Laureate, W.S. Merwin- I've actually been enjoying Merwin as a poe...

    I love this quote from Merwin… it’s sort of how I see poetry. A poem can be the link between another place or time. It’s a stone. ...

Would love to see this tomorrow night - If I were in Seatle I'd be there.  But wait, I have a reading to attend locally anyway. W.S....

I was thinking tonight the way I’ve been zipping through poetry books these past few weeks, (Just finished WILD IRIS by Louise Gluck) one a ...

W.S. Merwin has become one of my favorite poets over the past couple of years. At 81 he is still quite an active writer and has yet another ...

Dana Guthrie Martin is one of those people who's simply magical in her word choices. She has a poem in the latest Boxcar Poetry Review ...

A few poetry items: John Ashbery Reads at Haverford ( story ) Robert Frost's Dartmouth Lectures Published ( story ) ‘Living In Storms. C...

mood:full listening to: Shostakovitch Symphony No 5 in D minor Wife and I got away today to the movies ans saw Juno . It was my wife's c...

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers." -Mignon McLaughlin Oh my God! How true is that?!! Anyway, I...

The brain lateralization test from October 10th prompted me to ask my immediate family if they would take it as well. My wife and two of m...

Cheney was central voice in torture debate -He helped lay path for Gitmo interrogations / The Washington Post Editorial - Soft on Crime - N...

Robert Pinsky relates a resonant example of a poem that had consequences. [ here ]

In terms of my own poetry, I tend to move in and out of the usage of punctuation I suppose based more on mood than anything. Exactly why, I ...