After Months of Careful Deliberation The Longest Train in the World Ordinary Bruises Sweat The Simple Man Breathing Underwater Moving Bodies Sounds Instead of Dreaming One Morning Tennis Everything and Nothing at All Independence Day
	Michael Hettich is now a professor of English and Creative Writing at Miami Dade College (Wolfson Campus), but when he was a mere sophomore, in his first creative writing workshop, he realized "in a flash" how he could dedicate himself "to the making of an art that would allow one to tell the truth in ways that made that truth sufficiently mysterious and resonant that it might seem to sing outside the normal bounds of time." He likes the "momentary immortality" that poetry gives him. Reading and writing poetry have always been central to his life, giving him focus and engagement and the ambition to reach something that is always just beyond his reach. He calls his poetry "small machines made of words" and has published his "machines" in many journals, including Poetry East, Smartish Pace, Bayou, Cream City Review and Big Bridge. He edits Tigertail Annual of South Florida Poets (the 2nd edition is due in April). Last year he published Behind Our Memories (Adastra Press) and his new book, Stationary Wind, has just been published by March Street Press.