Some travel moments that remain with Michael T. Young are enjoying a bottle of wine with friends in Luxembourg Gardens, sipping scotch on a balcony overlooking The French Quarter in New Orleans, and placing a pen at Joseph Brodsky’s grave in Venice’s San Michele. He has received a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a William Stafford Award and the Chaffin Poetry Award, and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as Barrow Street, Iodine Poetry Review, The Potomac Review, and The Same.
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When the days are liquid, it’s best to pass on, /
if only to the next block, where I can take /
a diagonal across Zuccotti Park …
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