Michael has not studied poets or poetry and purely expresses himself from his soul. An avid and rabid jazz fan, he credits his poetic influences to the genre that he has been listening to since age four. It has been said that there is music in his writing, and he feels jazz is the reason for that.
"When it comes to poetry, I see that I have a great deal to learn. For now, I am just slinging words at the paper while following a riff. I have an archive of riffs, and my approach is pretty raw. That may be fine for now, but I want to be more than just a guerilla poet. I need to learn and understand the other aspects of the art form. At the moment, I am the unsophisticated country cousin in his unique version of Pygmalion."
Currently, Michael is in the military. He would like to write for television and the big screen and write fiction. He is the divorced father of two fine young men ages 8 and 6. He is also a career Air Force brat, but considers Washington, D.C. home.
See if you can hear the music in his words.
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Read Michael's Poems:
"untitled"
"The Trees Were Whispering"