Ann E. Michael is a poet, essayist, librettist and educator who lives in Eastern Pennsylvania. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and is a rostered Artist-in-Education with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her writing has appeared in numerous literary journals and in newspapers, family magazines, poetry anthologies, educational and academic publications as well as on radio. She has teaching experience with students from middle school through graduate school; in academic and workshop/seminar settings, she has instructed poetry, personal essay, memoir, radio commentary, creative writing and basic composition. Her chapbook of poems, More than Shelter, is available from Spire Press.

Other poems from One Trick Pony in Verse Daily:
September 10, 2005:   "If Found, Drop In Any Mail Box. Owner Will Pay Postage"" Jeanne Murray Walker
January 4, 2005:  "American Realism" by Harry Humes

About One Trick Pony:
Poets in this issue: Jim Daniels, John Freeman, Livio Farallo, Rochelle Ratner, Jeanne Murray Walker, Ann E. Michael, Julie Lechevsky, Richard Bank, April Lindner, Kelley Jean White, Bruce Dethlefsen, Gina Conti, Peter Krok, Alan Catlin, Marilyn Bates, Robert L. Penick, B. Z. Niditch, Gayle Elen Harvey, Dennis Herrell, Robin Merrill, Joanne Lowery, Cathryn Cofell, Sandy Supowit, Len Roberts, Daniel Donaghy, Margaret A. Robinson, John Grey, Robin Becker, Ann A. Boger, Jenny Browne