About
Me
Michael Holmes writes poetry, lyrics and music and hosts the wrestling / storytelling / business podcast BOOKMARKS. He’s also published fiction, cultural criticism and literary journalism. Today he’s finally putting all the years he devoted to that PhD at York University to work as a narrative doctor: he sees your story and can show you how to talk about the content you create. (Reach out and ask.) His widely acclaimed collections of poetry include James I Wanted to Ask You, Parts Unknown, Satellite Dishes from the Future Bakery, and Got No Flag at All. His novel Watermelon Row has been celebrated as an “emotional, physical, suspenseful, intricately plotted gutter novel”—but today he thinks of it as a twenty-four-hour investigation of why birds are better than man. Currently the Executive Editor at ECW Press and the facilitator of the misFit imprint family, since the early 1990s he has edited more than 700 books.
“Holmes is as dream-crazed as Burroughs, and his verbal decorum is as meticulous as Campion’s.”
— Tom Gunn
“A man who has gotten his language-tackle into life and dragged it streaming into the murky light of Now. Which indicates power under the hood and a wily hand on the levers.”
— August Kleinzahler
Writing.
Poems.
Lyrics.
