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Michael T. Young
Michael T. Young’s fourth collection, Mountain Climbing a River, was published by Broadstone Books in January 2026. His third full-length collection, The Infinite Doctrine of Water, was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award. He received a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. His poetry has been featured on Verse Daily and The Writer’s Almanac. It has also appeared in numerous journals including I-70, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Rattle, and Vox Populi.
Theseus in Old Age
There had been a clue for getting out. But in these later days, large portions of life get lost in the wide cracks between events, and memory itself twists into a labyrinth. How many corners did I turn in Paris—some with you, some with others from a past so distant none of its light […]
What Pigeons Do
And sometimes, honestly, I wonder what that is. Sure, they strut along a building ledge, squat on the head of a statue, dive through trees in the park. But unlike songbirds mixing their sense of joy with the hyacinth and bluebells of spring, lifting us all with them in their wonder, pigeons twitch and turn […]