Wheeling Through the Apocalypse: Review of Bicycles of the Gods: A Divine Comedy by Michael Simms by Angele Ellis “I woke one morning with an image of two boys riding their bicycles up a hill that looks down on a large city,” Michael Simms says of his debut novel in an interview with Deborah …
For this thirty-second post in the Poets on Craft series, we have Rachel Hadas and Michael Simms. Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic …
The final poem of Michael Simms’s recent book of poetry, American Ash, ends with the lines “… and everything is / Beautiful as you feel yourself / Floating over the city and you wish / The story didn’t have to end” (79). Simms is talking about getting old, but this was also exactly my sentiment …
Tree of Life When the young man wearing a yarmulke Asks Excuse me sir are you Jewish? I want to say Yes I’ve studied history and know Something about suffering But that’s not what he means. He’s trying to find ten men For a minyan At Rodef Shalom down the street And when the young …
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