Andrew Michael Roberts is the author of the poetry collections something has to happen next from the University of Iowa Press, Good Beast (Burnside Review Books, 2015), and two chapbooks: Dear Abandon from Poetry Society of America and Give Up from Tarpaulin Sky Press. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he spends his time as a cardiac nurse, a cyclist, a sasquatch enthuasist, a library regular, and a poet.

Other poems by Andrew Michael Roberts in Verse Daily:
January 17, 2014:   "Étude" "even now as you..."
August 13, 2011:   "Trapeze Swinger" "and sprung now..."
January 10, 2008:   "The World Wakes Up" "So we stop at the side of the road, and there is..."
September 17, 2007:   "Lamb" " God Forgets. He leaves the iron on and your beautiful city..."

Books by Andrew Michael Roberts:

Other poems on the web by Andrew Michael Roberts:
"the lost"
Two poems
Two poems
"Black Rainbow"
Two poems
"Lament"
"Starling"
"Butchery of the Human Heart"

About Good Beast:

"Andrew Michael Roberts is a poet you want to be reading. good beast terrifies, its poems possess air-like clarity. They are vast and mostly invisible. Roberts turns away from narrative in search of the moment and the emotion, which he has the ability to view through a microscope or telescope, and then the audacity to show us a world gentle but with distance, close and intimate, and at times stuck in an emotional apogee."
—Carl Adamshick

"I fell in love with the work of Andrew Michael Roberts when I first encountered it, and nothing he has written since has dimmed my enthusiasm; if anything, this new book good beast has added fuel to the fire of my admiration."
—Mary Ruefle