Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Michael Lira

Thank you for this opportunity to submit 3 pieces of poetry. First I would like to say I have been writing for approximately 24 years, and I have always found it easier to write shorter pieces instead of novels. Time doesn't come packaged in brown bottles, and that is unfortunate...
I've been published, but mostly in the mid-90's and not so much since. Maybe you have heard of Twisted Nipples, Stretchmarks, Penny Dreadful Review, or Concrete Chaos. I wish I could say they were the platform for a life of debauchery, and writing poetry without interruption, but no.
I work at a detention facility that houses U.S. Marshal detainees. Though that job is very interesting at times, there is nothing like eating mushrooms from the garden of a muse and washing 'em down with red sangria...