Michael Franco is a poet, playwright and artist. He has been a member of the poetry panel for Agni magazine [Boston University] and for ten years he directed the Word of Mouth Reading Series in Cambridge, MA. In the fall of 2016, he inaugurated a new series, Xit the Bear. He is a member of the board of directors for The Pioneer Valley Poetry Festival. His previous publications include: Book of Measure (Talisman House, 2017), The Marvels of David Leering (Pressed Wafer, Brooklyn, 2017), The Library of Dr Dee (dromenon press for Pressed Wafer 2006), How To Live (Zoland, Cambridge Ma. 1998), The Journals of the Man Who Kept Bees (lift 1996), Tales from the Portuguese (dromenon press, 1996), A Book of Measure (opening circumference) (dromenon press 1993). His work has appeared in numerous magazines, among them: Talisman, Agni, Spoke, Compound Eye, Notus, East Village and in the anthologies Agni 56 [30th Anniversary issue] and Reverberations.
