Michael Henry

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Michael J. Henry, MFA currently serves as Executive Director of Lighthouse, where he also teaches poetry and memoir and essay workshops. A former recipient of a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship and a PlatteForum Fellowship, his work has appeared in such places as Copper Nickel, Threepenny Review, 5280 Magazine, Ekphrasis, Hippocampus, Many Mountains Moving, Pleiades, Red Rock Review, Rio Grande Review, Georgetown Review, and Bloomsbury Review. He's collaborated with Garrett Ammon of Wonderbound to create three narrative poetry performances, When the Power Goes Out, Intersection, and Gone West.

Michael grew up in Buffalo, New York, received a BA in English from University of Rochester and an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. In 1997, he co-founded Lighthouse with Andrea Dupree, who serves as program director.

He's published two full-length collections of poetry, No Stranger Than My Own and Active Gods (Conundrum/Bower House), and a book of nonfiction, Mountain Biking the Colorado Trail (Bower House). In 2017, he was awarded a Livingston Fellowship from the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation.

Michael Henry's Published Work

Michael Henry's Articles

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Henderson Takes Philadelphia

December 16, 2006

In case he hasn't had enough ego fodder lately, William Haywood Henderson's obviously bedazzled the reviewer from the

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Arvin Takes Co Book Award

November 06, 2006

What's better than seeing a bunch of writers on that rare occasion when they get to bust out their fancy outfits and

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Everything's Prose-erific

October 16, 2006

Now that we've reserved her hotel room, we have to believe that, indeed, <

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The real milagro

October 16, 2006

was that any of us could talk intelligently about The Milagro Beanfield War at all, given that only one or two folks

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Francine Brings Class Wherever She Goes

October 10, 2006

After an eventful, heartening, laugh-packed weekend with Francine Prose, we're all on Prose withdrawal.

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More Evidence of a Prosey Universe

October 05, 2006

Her argument for growing up: