Michael Todd Steffen Non-Member Joined 2022

sleep to dream, dream to see, see to wake

Michael (Todd) Steffen lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. He helps coordinate The Hastings Room Reading Series, and frequently publishes articles about new and established poets on the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene website. His poems have appeared in journals, including The Boston Globe, The Dark Horse, Everse Radio, The Exacting Clam, North of Oxford, Ibbetson Street and spoKe. Boris Dralyuk (managing editor for Nimrod Journal) writes, I have read [Steffen’s] poems with enormous satisfaction. His lines are supple and wear their unmistakable wisdom lightly. Calling his second book, On Earth As It Is, “important work,” Joan Houlihan noted Steffen’s intimate portraits, sense of history, surprising wit and the play of dark and light...the striking combination of the everyday and the transcendent. His third collection, I Saw My Life, was published in April 2026 by Lily Poetry Review Press [lilypoetryreview.blog/i-saw-my-life-by-michael-steffen/]

Location:

Somerville, MA

Birthdate:

16 January

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