Poetry
Michael is founder and artistic director of LiTFUSE Poets’ Workshop, held annually at Mighty Tieton Artisan Community in Central Washington. Michael’s poetry has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, but he hasn’t yet won the actual cart. Michael is drawn to the oxymoron of the dirty word, to silence, to the territory beyond language. Here is a selection of Michael’s poetry:
| Title | Publication Date | Journal |
| Beyond Sirius | Summer 2010 | Slow Trains |
| Everywhen | Summer 2010 | Slow Trains |
| To the Thief Who Stole the Laughing Buddha | July 2010 | Floating Bridge Review |
| After the Ultrasound | May 2010 | Chest |
| to Michael Dublé horn playah RIP | Feb. 2010 | Gazoobi Tales Chapbook |
| Macaroon-Mouthed Woman | 2010 | Unpublished |
| Parasha | July 2009 | Lenin Poems Chapbook |
| Not Saying the F-Word | June 2009 | Floating Bridge Review |
| Polonium | June 2009 | Floating Bridge Review |
| Entanglement | May 2009 | Drash |
| Free Poem in Hard Times | 2008 | Unpublished |
| Styrofoam | Spring 2008 | November 3rd Club |
| Secrets | April 2008 | Drash |
| Grant Proposal | Feb. 2008 | Lilies and Cannonballs Review |
| Can Poetry Matter? | Feb. 2008 | Lilies and Cannonballs Review |
| sleeping together | Dec. 2007 | Runes |
| Blasphemy | Sept. 2007 | American Atheist |
| Skylight | July 10, 2007 | SLOG-The Stranger (online) |
| monday morning | June 2007 | when it rains from the ground up |
| LWPI-DTJDYC? | Spring 2007 | RockSaltPlum |
| breasts make the best pillows | Autumn 2006 | Pontoon 9 |
| Farewell to Edgar | Vol 23 No. 3, 2006 | Elysian Fields Quarterly |
| Signing My Life | Summer 2006 | The Ledge Magazine #29 |
| fluctuations | Autumn 2005 | Pontoon 8 |
| Autumn | May 2005 | The Art of Bicycling: A Treasury of Verse (Breakaway Books 2005) |
| Amateur Night | Fall 2004 | Penitalia |
| Nose Hairs | 2004 | Unpublished |
| 4-6-3 Poetry | Spring 2004 | Slow Trains |