About the author
Michael VanCalbergh is a writer, poet, and reader holding it down in central Illinois. Below is a running list of his poetry, writing, ect. that are still available on the interwebs. Please check out the other work he does besides Widely Read!
Publications
Poetry:
"Ode to My Father's Couch" Panoply Zine
"The Elves and the Child of Divorce" Feral
"A Spell for Budgeting" Verum Literary Press
"The Best Use of My Time in the Universe Where You're Still Alive" Panoply Zine
"The Conductor" and "Tower People and Earth People" Cobra Milk
"The Very Short Memoir of an Ant" RockPaperPoem
"Elegy on a Subway Platform" RockPaperPoem
"Visiting with Judy" Unstamatic
"This Love is Also a Father's Love" Parentheses
"Self Portrait of the Flooding in Southern Illinois as Horror Movie Trailer" Pastel Pastoral (enjoy the whole issue!)
"My Father Says, 'This Fly is Immortal'" Beaver Magazine
"My Father as Ulysses" autofocus books
"The Kitchen Table Makes an Offering" Rappahannock Review
"Third Shift Morning" Rappahannock Review
Short Interview about the two poems above!
"Meteor" Atticus Review
"7 Aphorisms Delivered During a Smoke Break" Figure 1
"Mother Mary Under I-90" Tinderbox Poetry Journal
"Instructions for My Father's Mortician" Tinderbox Poetry Journal
"Dreaming I'm My Ancestors" Gingerbread House
"Two Skeletons Found Holding Hands for 700 Years" Gingerbread House
"Stripping Scrap Wire" Panoply Zine
"The Mud God" (which originally appeared in Apex Magazine Issue 83) and "The Story of Men" Tattoosday Blog
"Denny's Mid-Afternoon" Per Contra
"Dear Kristen" Eclectica Magazine
Reviews
"Ananda Lima Writes for the Devil" The Chicago Reader
All the reviews I've done for The Comics Beat (currently at 11 comics reviews)
"Night School by Zsófia Bán, translated by Jim Tucker" The Rupture
"Save the Bathwater by Marina Carreira" The Rupture
"Call Her By Her Name by Bianca Lynne Spriggs" The Rupture
"Stereo. Island. Mosaic. by Vincent Toro" The Rupture
"Honest Engine by Kyle Dargan" The Rupture
"Angel Park by Roberto Santiago" The Rupture
"Again, Desire: A Review of Flower Conroy's The Awful Suicidal Swans" Weave Magazine
"Thrilling and Heroic and Strange: A Review of Laura van den Berg's There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights" Weave Magazine
"If They Would Touch Me: A Review of Robert Walicki's A Room Full of Trees" Weave Magazine
"The Day of Fulfillment is Near: A Review of Tom Noyes's Come by Here" Weave Magazine
"Who is Authored?: A Review of Sara Biggs Chaney's Precipice Fruit" Weave Magazine
"I am the Eggplant: A Review of Lindsay Lusby's Imago" Weave Magazine
Where to find Michael
