Michael Hettich was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1953 and grew up in New York City and its suburbs. He has lived in upstate New York, Colorado, Northern Florida, Vermont, Miami, and Black Mountain, North Carolina, where he now lives with his wife, Colleen. He has published over a dozen books and chapbooks of poetry, and his work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies. Michael Hettich's awards include several Florida Individual Artists Fellowships, a Florida Book Award, The Tampa Review Prize in Poetry, the David Martinson–Meadow Hawk Prize, and the 2020 Lena M. Shull Book Award. He often collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and fellow writers.

Other poems by Michael Hettich in Verse Daily:
August 23, 2014:   "The Measured Breathing" "And so I understand, at least for a moment..."
June 13, 2013:   "The Colorblind Man" "I drove by a parking lot full of black birds..."
June 5, 2013:   "The Rowboat" "A rowboat, she tells me, out of sight of land..."
November 6, 2004:  "Forgiveness" "We could wade from that island into clear ocean..."

Books by Michael Hettich:

Other poems on the web by Michael Hettich:
Two poems
Two poems
Nineteen poems
"Grace"
"The Tree"
"The Lesson"
Five poems
Four poems
Two poems
"The Pure Necessity"

Michael Hettich's Website.

About The Mica Mine:

"Michael Hettich's poems resemble half-remembered fables or lyrical dreams, animistic dramas played out in moonlit meadows, domestic interiors that shimmer like velvet jewelry boxes. Wisdom and enchantment are calling cards ..."
—Campbell McGrath