Michael Mark

Michael Mark is the author of Visiting Her in Queens is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet which won the 2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize. Some recent poems appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, New Ohio Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, 32 Poems and The Sun. His work appears in The Best New Poets, 2024. His poem “Devotion” received a Pushcart Prize, 2026. michaeljmark.com

  • I failed a bird today

    a House sparrow. I had to look