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. Since 2008, he's collaborated with Garrett Ammon of Wonderbound (formerly Ballet Nouveau Colorado) 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, both with Conundrum Press. In 2017, he was awarded a Livingston Fellowship from the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation.

Michael Henry's Published Work

Michael Henry's Articles

The Lookout

Word to the Wise

August 16, 2006

I don't know about anyone else, but my brain isn't big enough to fully grasp all of what

The Lookout

Summer Lit Fest Getting Festier

July 28, 2006

Now that 5280, The Jet Hotel, and the g

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Why Not Become One?

July 20, 2006

For those of you who don’t know, the alternatives to being a sensuist are pretty bleak, especially if you take Jake A

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Jet (Not in a McCartneyesque Way)

July 16, 2006

The Jet Hotel, Sunday night, our first faculty reading for our first annual literary festival.

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The Art of Literary Friendships

July 16, 2006

Tuesday night’s salon, entitled “Literary Friendships” was the kind of event that made you want to lean to the neares

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Jody Rein and Patty Moosbrugger join lit fest panels

July 02, 2006

Two of Colorado's biggest agents have signed on for our summer literary festival in July: Jody Rein of