Michael Cirelli is the author of Vacations on the Black Star Line (Hanging Loose Press, 2010), which was named in About.com's Poetry Picks "Best Books of 2010," and Lobster with Ol' Dirty Bastard (Hanging Loose Press, 2008), which was a NY Times bestseller from an independent press and was featured in the "Debut Poets" issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Hanging Loose, New York Quarterly, Texas Review, Poetry Daily, World Literature Today and King Magazine. He is the Executive Director of one of the nation's largest youth literary arts organization, Urban Word NYC, and has authored two poetry curricula, Poetry Jam (Recorded Books, 2010) and HipHop Poetry & the Classics (Milk Mug, 2004). He has also appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and Brave New Voices.

Other poems by Michael Cirelli in Verse Daily:
June 25, 2010:   "Poem in the Manner of a Refrigerator" "My song goes..."

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Other poems on the web by Michael Cirelli:
"Michelle"

About Everyone Loves The Situation:

"Cirelli has confronted the complex and challenging task of allowing the Guidos and Guidettes to pump their fists through the walls of class, racism and sexism, informing us of the harsh judgment calls that can be used against any of us. Transforming "spider webs" into "dream catchers," Cirelli's intonation recalls Lawrence Ferlinghetti—in piercing language and behind-the-scenes insight."
—Maria Lisella

"Beneath the verbal provocation, jibes, and endless taunts, Cirelli harnesses a poetics that's both seductive and disconcerting in its denuding of cultural excess. In poems that can be at once raw, endlessly propulsive, and politically astute, he exposes the tragic ethos of our dire contemporary moment where wars and threaded eyebrows, malls and illusory identity, vie frenetically for our saturated attention."
—Peter Covino