Michael Ryan is director of the MFA program in poetry at the University of California, Irvine. He’s the author of five books of poems, an autobiography, a memoir, and a collection of essays about poetry and writing. Ryan has been a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, among many other distinctions for his work. This Morning, his new book of poems, has just been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. “The Past” is from New and Selected Poems, by Michael Ryan. Copyright © 2004 by Michael Ryan. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. The author’s photo is by Chi-lin Sun.
Michael Ryan is director of the MFA program in poetry at the University of California, Irvine. He’s the author of five books of poems, an autobiography, a memoir, and a collection of essays about poetry and writing. Ryan has been a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, among many other distinctions for his work. This Morning, his new book of poems, has just been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. “The Past” is from New and Selected Poems, by Michael Ryan. Copyright © 2004 by Michael Ryan. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. The author’s photo is by Chi-lin Sun.