Michelle Bitting is the author of six poetry collections, including Nightmares & Miracles (Two Sylvias Press, 2022), winner of the Wilder Prize and named one of Kirkus Review's 2022 Best of Indie. Her chapbook Dummy Ventriloquist was published in 2024 by C & R Press. Recent poetry appears on The Slowdown, Thrush, Cleaver, The Poetry Society of New York's Milk Press, Heavy Feather Review, National Poetry Review, Catamaran, ONE ART, and is featured as Poem of the Week in The Missouri Review. Bitting is writing a novel that centers around Los Angeles and her great grandmother, stage and screen actor Beryl Mercer, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature at Loyola Marymount University.

Other poems by Michelle Bitting in Verse Daily:
March 16, 2022:   "I Get Why Dorothy Parker Gave All Her Money to the NAACP" "Tired writer she was at the end..."
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...."

Other poems on the web by Michelle Bitting:
"Prayer Meeting"
"Spicer's Radar"
"Savior"
"Late Afternoon"
"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.

The National Poetry Review
Editor-in-Chief: Angela Vogel
Other poems by The National Poetry Review in Verse Daily:
January 30, 2025:   "Nothing Like the Sun . . ." by Maryann Corbett
February 19, 2013:   "Land Lines" by Elizabeth Hughey
February 18, 2013:   "Embleton Bay" by Emily Wolahan
February 29, 2012:   "A Coin-Operated Button-Down Collar" by Mary Biddinger
February 28, 2012:   "Live Light" by James Grinwis
April 8, 2011:   "Island in Dispute Disappears into the Sea" by William D. Waltz
April 7, 2011:   "Self-Portrait as a Child's Stick Figure Drawing on a Refrigerator" by Tom C. Hunley
April 4, 2011:   "Ghosts" by Amy Graziano
March 26, 2010:   "Just the Ones" by Dan Kaplan
March 17, 2010:   "Skandha" by Michael Meyerhofer
March 16, 2010:   "Southhampton turned Suffer into Suffolk" by y madrone
March 4, 2009:   "L'art D'aimer" by Teresa Chuc Dowell
March 2, 2009:   "Dear Succubus" by Lee Upton
February 26, 2009:   "Legitimacy Is So Chummy" by J. P. Dancing Bear
February 24, 2009:   "Self-Portrait with Taxidermy" by Oliver de la Paz
February 23, 2009:   "Dog Moon" by Dorianne Laux
November 16, 2007:   "Why Dogs Tell Stories" by Cathryn Essinger
November 14, 2007:   "Lazy Eye" by Lesley Wheeler
November 13, 2007:   "Poem Starting with a Line by Jason Bredle" by J. P. Dancing Bear
November 12, 2007:   "Chipmunk Squirrel Costume Party" by Jason Bredle
October 20, 2006:   "What Feathers Are For" by Ann Lauinger
October 19, 2006:   "The Trouble with Hammers" by Michael Meyerhofer
October 17, 2006:   "Calling T. From the Cultural Wasteland" by Tara Bray
October 16, 2006:   "At Last, Fire Seen As a Psychotic Break" by Sarah Hannah
February 3, 2006:   "The Comfort of Strangers" by Jeffrey Levine
January 30, 2006:   "Deep Sea Dantesca" by Carol Quinn
January 27, 2006:   "Hibernaculum" and "Or," by Bridget Cross
January 24, 2006:   "Pertinacious Seedheads" by Michelle Boisseau
June 28, 2005:  "West Nile" by J. P. Dancing Bear
June 23, 2005:  "Tell The Time" Theodore Worozbyt
June 22, 2005:  "Three Boats, One Afternoon" Jennifer Michael Hecht
June 21, 2005:  "The Personal Touch" Bob Hicok
December 27, 2004:  "The Compost Heap" by A. E. Stallings
December 22, 2004:  "Against Elegies" by M. B. McLatchey
December 21, 2004:  "On Starlings" by Tara Bray
December 20, 2004:  "Elephant" by Emily Rosko
April 16, 2004:  "To a Friend Unable to Write" by Lynne Knight
April 15, 2004:  "Nursery Shellgame" by Diane Thiel
April 14, 2004:  "Lilith" by A. E. Stallings
April 12, 2004:  "The Tree Frog" by C. Dale Young
August 8, 2003:  "Island Myths" by J. P. Dancing Bear
August 7, 2003:  "Pushkin and the Black Sea" by Diane Thiel
August 5, 2003:  "Betta Splendens" by Ellen Kirvin Dudis
August 4, 2003:  "A Bone to Pick with You" by A. E. Stallings

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