“Line by line there’s a real cumulative pulse in the life of the here again, lost again. I love the haunting particulars, the day- by -day detail of attrition evoking the larger trauma.“
~Geroge Kalogeris, Author of Winthropos: Poems
About Michael Todd Steffen
Michael Todd Steffen lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. He helps
coordinate The Hastings Room Reading Series, and frequently
publishes articles about new and established poets on the Boston Area
Small Press and Poetry Scene website. His own poems have appeared
in journals, including The Boston Globe, The Dark Horse, Everse
Radio, North of Oxford and Ibbetson Street. Boris Dralyuk (managing
editor for Nimrod Journal) writes, I have read [Steffen’s] poems with
enormous satisfaction. His lines are supple and wear their unmistakable
wisdom lightly. Calling his second book, On Earth As It Is, “important
work,” Joan Houlihan noted Steffen’s intimate portraits, sense of history,
surprising wit and the play of dark and light…the striking combination of
the everyday and the transcendent.