Michael Palmer was born in New York City in 1943. He is the recipient of two grants from the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1989-90. He has written eight books of poetry and is often published in such literary magazines as Boundary 2, Berkeley Poetry Review, Sulfur, Conjunctions, and O-blek. His most recent books of poetry are AtPassages (1996) and The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995 (1998), both published by New Directions. He presently lives in San Francisco, CA. |