Michael Meyerhofer Michael Meyerhofer's third book, Damnatio Memoriae, won the Brick Road Poetry Book Contest and is forthcoming. His second book, Blue Collar Eulogies, was published by Steel Toe Books. His first, Leaving Iowa, won the Liam Rector First Book Award. He has also won the Marjorie J. Wilson Best Poem Contest, the James Wright Poetry Award, the Laureate Prize, and the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Arts &Letters. River Styx, Quick Fiction, and other journals.

Other poems by Michael Meyerhofer in Verse Daily:
March 17, 2010:   "Skandha" "You nurse the origami of your theory..."
June 16, 2007:   "Iconography of the Heart" " We see it haunting lockets, cards..."
October 19, 2006:   "The Trouble with Hammers" " The trouble with owning hammers..."

Books by Michael Meyerhofer:

Other poems on the web by Michael Meyerhofer:
"Number Twenty-Five"
Two Poems
"Dust"
"Dedication"
"Poem Written For My Grandfather Talking About Suicide"
"Lilium Lophophorum"
"Portrait of a Midwestern Exile on Wheels"
"Theodote"
Three Poems
Two poems
"My Mother's Darkness"
"Grief Song"

Michael Meyerhofer's Website.

Michael Meyerhofer's Blog.

Michael Meyerhofer according to Wikipedia.

Michael Meyerhofer on Twitter.

About Pure Elesium:

"Michael Meyerhofer’s Pure Elysium is a paradise, a sweet ride through imagination’s wide, un-mown fields. These compact and wildly various poems- funny, serious, personal, global- continually surprise and delight."
—Dorianne Laux

"Winner of Palettes & Quills Second Biennial Chapbook Contest Michael Meyerhofer’s Pure Elysium is a paradise, a sweet ride through imagination’s wide, un-mown fields. These compact and wildly various poems- funny, serious, personal, global- continually surprise and delight. -- Dorianne Laux Michael Meyerhofer's poems reside mainly in narrative. But even though they typically begin and operate in story, they often end with an interesting lyric curl, and it is these endings that make me want to go back and reconsider their lineages. Pure Elysium's final poem--a lyric, interestingly, which holds much to admire--declares that "we all carry the gene for greatness." There may indeed be some of that destiny inviting us to peek at its evolution here."
—C. J. Sage

"If this collection is Pure Elysium, then I never want to be impure again. Give me flappers with a flat tire, make my wallet turn up under a bed skirt, and let me listen to, “the sound of two hands clapping / in the vacuum between stars.” Michael Meyerhofer is the master of the twist, the patron saint of lines embodying equal parts comedy and poignancy. This collection is nothing like the knights who “woke in such a fuss / that they dressed themselves backwards,” and readers will want to wear the opposite of chainmail when reading these poems. In short, Meyerhofer has done it again. We’re lightning-struck, and it is the best kind of blessing."
—Mary Biddinger