Michelle Bitting                                                Poet

                                                                                               

820 Bienveneda Avenue
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
ph: 310-454-5478
fax: 310-454-5478
alt: 310-350-0155

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And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls
drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair,
against our will, comes wisdom to us by
the awful grace of God. 
- Aeschylus
Two Poems (with audio!) on The 2 RiverView

"Galilee" on The New Verse News (May 22nd, 2007)

"Water" on Poetry Southeast

"Saturday Afternoons, Royal Theater" on Speechless the Magazine

"About Beryl Mercer, Actress (1882-1939)" on Speechless the Magazine

"Sacrament" on Poetry Daily

"Giving My Son His Meds the Morning of the Big Meteor Storm" on Poetry Southeast

"The Rapture" on Small Spiral Notebook

"The Exterminator's Wife" on Valparaiso Poetry Review

"Want" on Ink and Ashes

"Blue Laws: Provo, Utah" on Clackamas Literary Review

"Good Friday Kiss" and "WTC,NYC" on Poetry Superhighway

"When He Doesn't Get the Job" on Rattle

"Girls' Night Out" on Six Bricks Press

"The Day Collapsing" on Stone Table Reveiw

"Take-Out Fantasy" on Many Mountains Moving

Four Poems on Lunarosity
Four Poems on Cezanne's Carrot
Three Poems on Moonday

 Short Fiction

"Little Gifts" on Narrative Magazine
 
"Reasons to Quit" on 21 Stars

 

Other Favorite Links
Pacific University, Oregon MFA in  Writing

 

Major Influences
Poets and Writers
Dylan Thomas
Anne Sexton
Sharon Olds
Dorianne Laux
Kim Addonizio
Kevin Young
Tony Hoagland
Lisa Glatt
David Hernandez
Music
Joni Mitchell
Patti Smith
Tom Waits
Prince
Johnny Cash
Johann Sebastian Bach

 

820 Bienveneda Avenue
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
ph: 310-454-5478
fax: 310-454-5478
alt: 310-350-0155