Michael Homolka's poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Boulevard, Parnassus, and The Threepenny Review. A graduate of Bennington College's MFA program, he lives in New York City and currently teaches high school English to low-income students.

Books by Michael Homolka:

Other poems on the web by Michael Homolka:
Two poems
Three poems
"Rhapsody with Impasse"
"Upper West Side on a Saturday"
Four poems
Two poems
"Hooky"
"Lake House"
"Riposte to Ode"
"Evergreen vi"
"Evergreen v"

About Antiquity:

"The poems in Antiquity very much abandon themselves to language, to the collective poetic endeavor, and they do so in a rich, textured, and sustained voice, though out of a self that is 'flexible in its adherence/ to a particular time period.' What's antiquity anyway, but a thing that is always lurking beneath the surface, not only in the sense of its influence—then shaping now—but in the sense our now will so soon be a then. And what if this book, by virtue of its intelligence and in spite of its exhilaration, leaves us with a sense of spiritual weariness . . . wanting to be gladder and more puffed up? Consider most of all that if such wishes were granted, we wouldn't have these marvelous poems, poems that remind us of how easy it is, really, to talk to Horace."
—Mary Ruefle

"Antiquity unveils a rarefied realm where ancient and postmodern are lived simultaneously. Kaleidoscopic, lyrical, bold, meticulous and sensual, the poems are 'flexible in (their) adherence/to a particular time period." Each poem is a dark aria from the opera of history. Sexual/political energy, rapt stanzas, the choreography of disaster, fatalism, persecution, seduction, and much more are contemplated by eternity's light. Each poem is a heady, mysterious, evocative cocktail of zeitgeists."
—Amy Gerstler

"Steeped in the archetypal and the historical, this book straddles life's rapacious uncertainties with a healthy dose of ambivalence towards patriarchal legacies, surviving on rations of wry wit (running the gamut from jovial to martial) as well as meticulous attentions/devotions to form. Homolka has thrown down his gauntlet, and this formidable debut, by hook and by crook, manages to transubstantiate the half-empty chalice into the half-full."
—Timothy Liu