This week's featured poet is Michael Dickel. Michael is an award-winning writer, educator, and editor. It's an honor to feature three of his poems today, including "Extinction Event" which previously appeared in The BeZine (March 2021). Please be sure to check out his Bio (below) for more details about his books and outstanding accomplishments. Thank you, Michael!
Fast-talking slow-walking
Extinction Event
23. July. XX
A poet, artist, fiction writer, publication editor, educator & photographer, Michael Dickel's creative work appears widely in print & online. He edits The BeZine online quarterly. He taught at David Yellin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, Bar Ilan University, and in the US at Macalester College, the University of Minnesota, and Metropolitan State Universiry-MN. His poetry has won international awards & been translated into several languages. His most recent poetry collection, Nothing Remembers, came out from Finishing Line Press in September 2019, and received a Feathered Quill Book Award for Poetry. He has a chapbook, Breakfast at the End of Capitalism (Locofo Chaps, 2017) and a flash fiction collection, The Palm Reading after The Toad’s Garden (Is a Rose Press, 2016), among other prior books. With Israeli producer / director David Fisher, he received an NEH grant and wrote a film script about Yiddish theatre.