Mike Bagwell writes poetry and fiction
New chapbook A Collision of Soul in Midair from bottlecap press!
This site collects various publications, including the work itself if the publication is now unavailable, as well as a full book, Or Else they are Trees, and various design and publication work.
Mike Bagwell is a writer and software engineer out of Philadelphia. He received an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence and has work published or forthcoming in Action Spectacle, ITERANT, Sprung Formal, trampset, Heavy Feather Review, Halfway Down the Stairs, HAD, BULL, Bodega Magazine, SOFTBLOW, Whiskey Island, and others. Some editors have kindly nominated him for a pushcart. He is the author of the chapbooks A Collision of Soul in Midair (Bottlecap Press 2023), Or Else they are Trees, and a micro When We Look at Things We Steal their Color and Grow Heavy Under their Weight (Rinky Dink Press 2024). He was the founding editor and designer of the currently deceased El Aleph Press.
2 Poems from Bodega Magazine
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
The whippoorwills hid where the river was / and all they could do when we found it was sing / and that was alright, mostly. The ducks / were decoy ducks and the grass / was decoy grass, / but the water was just water.