Michelle Bitting was short-listed for the 2020 Montreal International Poetry Prize, the 2021 Fish Poetry Contest judged by Billy Collins, and a finalist for the 2021 Coniston Prize. She won the 2018 Fischer Poetry Prize, Quarter After Eight's 2018 Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest, and a fourth collection of poetry, Broken Kingdom won the 2018 Catamaran Prize and was named to Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2018. In 2021, her manuscript Nightmares & Miracles won the Wilder Prize, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, and will be published by Two Sylvias Press in April, 2022. She has poems published in The American Poetry Review, Narrative, The Los Angeles Review, Rattle, Thrush, Vinyl Poetry, The Paris-American, Love's Executive Order, The Raleigh Review, Plume, Tupelo Quarterly, and others. New poems are found or forthcoming in Air/Light, The Night Heron Barks, The New Guard/BANG!, Sugar House Review, Radar Poetry, Narrative, The Banyan Review, Limp Wrist, SWWIM, and Pine Hills Review. She was a finalist for the 2020 Reed Magazine Edwin Markham Prize, as well as the 2019 Sonora Review and New Millennium Flash Prose contests. Michelle is a Lecturer in Poetry and Creative Writing at Loyola Marymount University and Film Studies at U of Arizona Global. Michelle Bitting was short-listed for the 2020 Montreal International Poetry Prize, and a finalist for Radar Poetry's 2021 Coniston and Reed Magazine's 2020 Edwin Markham Prizes. Her fifth collection Nightmares & Miracles won the Wilder Prize, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, and will be published by Two Sylvias Press in April, 2022. Michelle is a Lecturer in Poetry and Creative Writing at Loyola Marymount University and Film Studies at University of Arizona Global.

Other poems by Michelle Bitting in Verse Daily:
January 08, 2019:   "Ziggy" "I thought of you today..."
June 22, 2016:   "Aphrodite in Los Angeles" "Her hair was crazy with wind..."
April 20, 2012:   "On Any Day Like Alice" "No reason to think it wouldn't happen..."
October 10, 2008:   "The Feeding" "It was about love. It was about survival...."

Books by Michelle Bitting:

Other poems on the web by Michelle Bitting:
"Bricolage"
Five poems
Three poems
Four poems
"Beginnings"
Two poems
"Black Guitar"
"Mammary"
"Patti Smith"
"Moby Dick Individuation"
"Wheel of Fortune"
Four poems
Two poems
"Wheel of Fortune"

Michelle Bitting's Website.

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July 23, 2020:   "Lost" by Susanna Lang
July 22, 2020:   "The Men and the Quiet" by Sean Thomas Dougherty
July 21, 2020:   "Casual wind" by Shira Dentz
July 20, 2020:   "Terms of Agreement" by Mary Biddinger
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November 13, 2019:   "Doppler" by David Beebe
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March 4, 2017:   "Ghost Walk After the Resurrection" by Chelsea Dingman
August 11, 2016:   "To The Astronaut: On Impact" by Lisa Fay Coutley
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