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Michael Lee Johnson

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in Centerpoint/Brazil, Indiana, The United States

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http://poetryman.mysite.com/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/poetrymanusa

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Poetry, Religion, Art

Influences

Carl Sandburg, Leonard Cohen, Charles Bukowski, Jesus Christ

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January 2010

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Michael Lee Johnson, a renowned poet from Downer Grove, IL, has gained international recognition for his work, which has been published in 46 countries or republics. His poems have been nominated for 8 Pushcart and 7 Best of the Net nominations. Join his journey. Michael has over nearly 376 poetry videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@poetrymanusa.... Join his Facebook poetry site here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/37845.... He spent 10 years in exile in Canada during the Vietnam War era. Member of the Illinois State Poetry Society: http://www.illinoispoets.org/ and Poets & Writers: https://www.pw.org/. ...more

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Dandelion in a Vase of Roses

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Dandelion in a Vase of Roses, poetry anthology is breaking at the seams, 98 poets, 326 pages, representing 37 different countries and republics from all over the world. It is large 8 ½" x 11" large font size 14 for easy reading, poet photos and many illustrative pictures. It is a loaded anthology combining the best in professional contemporary poets of this day along with new emergin Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 02, 2017 19:52 • Tags: anthology, literature, poems, poetry

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	Songs For The Raven by James Ward Kirk (Editor), Matthew Wilson, David S. Pointer 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dandelion in a Vase of Roses: A Poetry Anthology of Diverse Poets and Countries by Michael Lee Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ken Allan Dronsfield (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sandy Benitez (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze by Michael Lee Johnson (Goodreads Author), Ken Allan Dronsfield (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Leaves Short Poems of Nature and Love by Michael Lee Johnson (Goodreads Author), Irma Kurti it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Challenge of Night and Day, and Chicago Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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message 2: by Michael

Jan 31, 2017 06:46PM

Very kind of you Mario Vitale and I see your work in our poetry Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/80767...

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message 1: by Mario

Jan 31, 2017 03:19PM

Very good writer I feel I know him from some where ?
Read a lot of his work & very pleased with it.
He aspires in the most positive of light.
Such as a beacon of light to a most hurting world in need.
Thank you kindly,
Poet Mario Vitale

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