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Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in magazines including Cagibi Literary Journal, Stoneboat, The Aurorean, The Ocotillo Review, London Reader, and in anthologies including for a better world 2020 and Anthology of Appalachian Writers Vol. X. He received Kentucky State Poetry Society’s Chaffin/Kash Prize in 2019. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, but summers in Ecstasy and winters in Despair.

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Spring, a sijo….

Last Updated: on May 22, 2024June 5, 2024by Mike WilsonLeave a Comment

Sijo-Mike Wilson, photo-Jonathan Cooper, appeared in Eastern Structures

Life, a very short poem….

Last Updated: on April 30, 2024June 3, 2024by Mike WilsonLeave a Comment

Poem-Mike Wilson, photo-Steven Wei, appeared in The Bamboo Hut

Waking Up to the Truth, a poem…

Last Updated: on April 30, 2024June 1, 2024by Mike WilsonLeave a Comment

Poem-Mike Wilson, photo Fran Jacquier, appeared in Home Planet News

The Speed of Light is a Constant, a poem…

Last Updated: on April 30, 2024May 30, 2024by Mike WilsonLeave a Comment

Poem-Mike Wilson, photo-Ana Curcan, appeared in Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts

Book Review – You Dream of Empires, by Alvaro Enrigue

Last Updated: on April 30, 2024May 27, 2024by Mike WilsonLeave a Comment

You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue is part historical novel (the reimagined meeting of Cortes and Montezuma) and part satire, presented in a hallucinatory …

Book Review- The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray

Last Updated: on April 30, 2024May 24, 2024by Mike WilsonLeave a Comment

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray is a BFB – literally, being 643 pages, and metaphorically in the sense of how deeply the author takes …

Sonnet Psalm of a Sensitive Person….

Last Updated: on May 23, 2024May 22, 2024by Mike WilsonLeave a Comment

Poem-Mike Wilson, photo-Eric Muhr “Sonnet Psalm of a Sensitive Person,” appeared in Gyroscope

Book Review, Western Lane by Chetna Maroo

Last Updated: on April 30, 2024May 18, 2024by Mike WilsonLeave a Comment

Western Lane is a short debut novel by Chetna Maroo, winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction in 2022. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been …

Evidence of Things Unseen, a poem…

Last Updated: on April 30, 2024May 15, 2024by Mike WilsonLeave a Comment

Poem by Mike Wilson, photo by Bunny Wilson

Book Review – Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House, by Katerina Stoykova

Last Updated: on April 30, 2024May 13, 2024by Mike WilsonLeave a Comment

Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House is a collection of the poems of Lexington poet (and proprietor of Accents Publishing) Katerina Stoykova published …