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Michael Garrigan

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Teacher. Writer. Pennsylvania. Ghost Hunting Glaciers (Grayson Books Poetry Prize) River, Amen (2023 - Winner of the Weatherford Award) linktr.ee/mgarrigan?utm_source=link…

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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate... www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-44-fal...
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Issue 44 / Fall 2026
This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate. Although the writing contains many common poetic images and topics (the moon, birds, fear, loss, love, and language itself all make appearances), …
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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Issue 44 ft. @emmabolden.bsky.social @whitlynnrioross.bsky.social @mgarrigan.bsky.social @ellenkfee.bsky.social @medenkuyatt.bsky.social @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social @ryancmccarty.bsky.social @katiekemple.bsky.social
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NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The April NAWP event with @chiaradilello.bsky.social, @mgarrigan.bsky.social, & @esylviapoet.bsky.social is finally posted on our YouTube channel! Woohoo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPCN...
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April 2026: Chiara Di Lello, Michael Garrigan, and Elizabeth Sylvia
YouTube video by NAWP
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This poem by Anne Haven McDonnell
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This book by @mgarrigan.bsky.social is wonderful. I read it in one sitting and immediately wanted to read it again. It weaves fantastical voices of Black Bear and Dead Elk and a mythological Stone Swimmer in a beautiful braid. Buy a copy graysonbooks.com/products/gho...
Ghost Hunting Glaciers book by Michael Garrigan
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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Starting sooooon! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...
Poster for NAWP reading with photos of Chiara Michael and Elizabeth (and the NAWPstritch)
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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Come hear @esylviapoet.bsky.social @mgarrigan.bsky.social and me! Brought to you by the fine folks of @notatawp.bsky.social!
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I’ll be doing an online reading tomorrow from my new book, Ghost Hunting Glaciers. Register here- www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...
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A NAWP Reading: Chiara Di Lello, Michael Garrigan & Elizabeth Sylvia
A NAWP Reading with Chiara Di Lello, Michael Garrigan and Elizabeth Sylvia, Hosted by Jared Beloff.
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NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Register for this great reading coming soon! Hey @gameoverbooks.bsky.social & @riverriverbooks.bsky.social, your authors are reading on Monday! (Sorry, @mgarrigan.bsky.social's latest publisher doesn't appear to be on Bluesky, which means they're probably healthy and outside or something.) NAWP!
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Yep and we have a reading coming up with @chiaradilello.bsky.social @esylviapoet.bsky.social and @mgarrigan.bsky.social Monday the 27th www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...
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A NAWP Reading: Chiara Di Lello, Michael Garrigan & Elizabeth Sylvia
A NAWP Reading with Chiara Di Lello, Michael Garrigan and Elizabeth Sylvia, Hosted by Jared Beloff.
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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Enjoying reading these two books side by side. Both so deeply rooted in place. @danahenrymartin.bsky.social @mgarrigan.bsky.social
Cover of No Sea Here in large white block text integrated into a landscape painting of golds, blues and grays with the authors name in black: Dana Henry Martin You Can't Tell Direction Here

by the roads, which are five degrees or so off cardinal. I've never tried to follow anything,

not even sun or star.

I swear I saw a goose heading north last week,

its honk a cry for help through the loose clouds. I suppose navigating is like most anything-go one way

long enough and you've gone the other.




Cover of Ghost Hunting Glaciers, dark grey-blue title letters on a white ground above a painting of glaciers with a spiral pastel rainbow sky, Poems Michael Garrigan in thin letters matching title color. Epistemology: Estuary

A melding stillness-her feet sunken firm in this small estuary where creek meets ocean;

seaweed and small stones painted with root blood, creeping dogwood in sand around her ankles, spruce holding wind even when water is flat calm at her back.

She watches brook trout coast in on high tide chased by some larger fish-stripers maybe? would they eat something so beautiful?

and marvels at how they hold the soft color of salt around each faint halo and how their skin maps tides and currents and how one mineral can change a body.
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Looking forward to this!
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NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Hey! This week stunk, huh? But poetry will make ya feel better (or commiserate artistically...), so: 1. Click below to register for the reading w/ @chiaradilello.bsky.social, @mgarrigan.bsky.social, & @esylviapoet.bsky.social!!! 2. Click this for previous NAWP readings: bsky.app/profile/nota...
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“Viewing nature as something mystical, of which humans are simply one part, is necessary for engaging fully with Ghost Hunting Glaciers … this collection beautifully explores the metaphysical reality of entering the greater than human world." www.theshorepoetry.org/shore-things...
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Review: Michael Garrigan — THE SHORE
On Ghost Hunting Glaciers by Michael Garrigan by Tyler Truman Julian In an interview, Whitman Award winning poet, Leah Naomi Green explained that, instead of using the word nature when discussing...
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Looking forward to this!
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Grateful for this wonderful review of Ghost Hunting Glaciers www.theshorepoetry.org/shore-things...
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Review: Michael Garrigan — THE SHORE
On Ghost Hunting Glaciers by Michael Garrigan by Tyler Truman Julian In an interview, Whitman Award winning poet, Leah Naomi Green explained that, instead of using the word nature when discussing...
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Jessica Whipple @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I'm so glad to have attended the reading tonight with @mgarrigan.bsky.social and @grantclauser.bsky.social, both PA poets I've known *online* and admired for a while now, but never met in person. The work they shared--mostly ecopoetry--is dense with imagery, beauty, and life.
Michael Garrigan standing in a bookstore reading a poemGrant clauser standing reading a poem, windows behind both poetsA hand holding Grant's book of poetry called Temporary Shelters
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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Hey Lancaster PA folks, this Sunday @mgarrigan.bsky.social and I will be reading from our new books at Nooks Gallery & Bookstore.
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Happy book release day!
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I'll be going to AWP for the first time this year and will be signing books at the Terrain.org table on Saturday, March 7th at 1 p.m. Are there any readings happening Fri. or Sat. night that are looking for another poet? I'd love to participate! Reach out if you'll be there, I'd love to meet up!
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Terrain.org - Online Environmental Magazine of Literature and Place
Terrain.org is an online environmental magazine of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, editorials, interviews, reviews, Unsprawl case studies, and art since 1998.
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Michael McGriff is an incredible poet and I’m honored to have his words on the back cover of Ghost Hunting Glaciers. Please check out any of his collections. When I need to reimagine syntax and memory, I turn to his work for inspiration.  Preorder link in profile!
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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
GHOST HUNTING GLACIERS by Michael Garrigan (Winner of the Grayson Books Poetry Prize, Selected by Alberto Ríos) @mgarrigan.bsky.social www.mgarrigan.com/store/p9/Gho...
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
West Virginia knows what’s up
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Anne Haven McDonnell has been an inspiration to me for many years. Her chapbook, Living with Wolves, showed me how to create an ecology within a collection and Breath on Coal is a fantastic book that I return to often. I cannot wait to read her newest book Singing Under Snow! a.co/d/06i3nZRC
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I’m so excited to announce that my latest book of poetry, Ghost Hunting Glaciers, was selected by the wonderful Alberto Ríos for the Grayson Books Poetry Prize & will be published on February 23! I can’t wait for you to meet Dead Elk, Stone Swimmer, & others that comprise the ecology of this book.
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about
The origins of Raftman's Path.
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Coming soon…
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A few new poems from my upcoming collection!!!
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
“calculus assumes that at a certain point a curved line becomes straight but that just means anything orbiting anything is always trying to get somewhere new.” @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2025/12/09/r...
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Cooper Dart - The Rumpus
for samson, his sky the way I’d show up and leave into night   and he’d still be out   with that orange bikethe carburetor
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Poetry rejections on Thanksgiving? Oof. 😂
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
- Michael McGriff
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change. Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social! www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
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One Poem by Jared Beloff - Terrain.org
New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem.
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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This. Let it drift on for 30 more minutes, please. stevegunn.bandcamp.com/track/mornin...
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Morning on K Road, by Steve Gunn
from the album Daylight Daylight
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sometimes man💀⚡️🍌 @dangerbum.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
hard to believe this was 2 years ago today!⚡️ best @taperschoice.bsky.social show to date! (as voted on by the fans and also my personally opinion!)🍌 youtu.be/bMVxJ54_Ibk?...
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Taper's Choice Live From Kung Fu Necktie, Philly
YouTube video by wook plus
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Thanks @riverriverbooks.bsky.social . My classroom just got a bit cooler
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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It’s been years since my mother and father turned to ash. Tonight my lover holds me in the bed where I was conceived. ___ From: “In the Bed Where I Was Conceived,” by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Todd Davis Published in the Missouri Review. #Poetry #Poem missourireview.com/davis/
Todd Davis
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Susquehanna River petroglyphs
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Be sure to stop at our Free Library (curated by two book nerds!) next time you’re walking or riding along the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail! #freelibrary
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Oh! Okay, y’all! 🙏💙 I made another color version, and will have them in a week or so, if you’d like to order one: riverriverbooks.org/store/Read-W...
The blue and pink version, 8.5”x11” poster with the text:

READ 
WRITE
EDIT 
CITE

only you can write your ideas
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Does anyone else love this record?
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Man this was a wonderfully engrossing read. Anyone else read it???
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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.” Wendell Berry #writer #poetry
“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.”
Wendell Berry
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Which Gregory Orr book should u buy?
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Two new Dead Elk poems in the latest@quarternotesmag.bsky.social ! quarternotesmag.com/garrigan/
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Two Poems from Dead Elk by Michael Garrigan
Two Poems from Dead Elk by Michael Garrigan Dead Elk Attends a Billy Strings Concert For JoshReckless ain’t even the word; surrounded in the pit by all this skin and meat reminds him of his first w…
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Excited to have three new Dead elk poems in the latest issue of Cutleaf Journal! cutleafjournal.com/content/dead...
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Dead Elk Antlers a Constellation - Cutleaf Journal
Dead Elk Listens to the Last Crickets and understands what’s done and what’s to come. He sighs into the hillsideand for the whole length of that breathhe is
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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I hope you enjoy my new poem featured in @terrainorg.bsky.social. It's loaded with mushrooms, slugs, butterflies, and orcas. www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
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One Poem by Grant Clauser - Terrain.org
Grant Clauser's ecopoem "Slugs Have Teeth, and Other Useless Facts" (with audio) may, like the poet himself, keep you up worrying at night.
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
New author photo?
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Is it possible to write an erotic (intimate?) poem with a mountain? Because I think I just did?
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Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Working on a quadtriptych, hoping to mirror a mountain range.
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