Michael Daley

Michael Daley’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Hudson Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, Rhino, North American Review, Writers Almanac, Raven Chronicles, Seattle Review, Jeopardy, Prairie Schooner, Cirque, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cascadia Review, and elsewhere. Founding editor of Empty Bowl, publisher of the Dalmo’ma anthologies, former Poet-in-Residence for the Washington State Arts Commission, Skagit River Poetry Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, he retired from teaching at Mount Vernon High School in 2012. His reviews and essays have appeared in Pacific Northwest Review of Books, Raven Chronicles, Port Townsend Leader, and Book/Mark Quarterly Review. His collections of poetry include: The Straits (Empty Bowl, 1983), To Curve (Word, 2008), Moonlight in the Redemptive Forest (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2010), Of a Feather (Empty Bowl, 2016) and Born With (Dos Madres, 2020). He has been awarded by the Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Commission, Artist Trust, Fulbright, and the National Endowment of the Humanities. Pleasure Boat Studio also published his essays, Way Out There (2007) and his translation of Alter Mundus (2013) by Italian poet Lucia Gazzino.