Michael Dickman

"Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind."—The New Yorker"These are lithe, seemingly effortless poems, poems whose strange affective power remains even after several readings."—The Believer"My master plan is happiness," writes Michael Dickman in his wonderfully strange third book, Green Migraine. Here, imagination and reality swirl in the juxtaposition between beauty...

The New Yorker profiled brothers Michael and Matthew Dickman in “Couplet: A Tale of Twin Poets” (April 6, 2009) Both brothers’s poetry appear regularly in The New Yorker Natives of Portland, Oregon, the brothers logged many hours exploring Powell’s Books, where they acquired an obsession for contemporary poetry. They have a “poet family”—their mother’s step-sister is Sharon Olds, and they lived with Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar on-and-off while undergraduates. They played two of the three...

"Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone—Flies renders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating."—James Laughlin Award citation "Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind."—The New Yorker "These are lithe, seemingly...

• Identical twin brother of Matthew Dickman, who was published last season through the APR/Honickman Award • Dickman brothers were featured in articles in New Yorker and Poets & Writers