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 Reviews 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:
January 31, 2025:   "Memorial" "Now they're figuring out my brother's service...."

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

Michelle Bitting's Website.

What the House Knows
Editor: Diane Lockward
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