Michael Hettich

Michael Hettich’s most recent book of poetry is The Measured Breathing. He collaborates with visual artists in making limited-edition posters of art and poetry through the Sweat Broadside Project in Miami, Florida, where he lives with his wife.

— From June 2013

Poetry

Elegy

We walked the city after dark, talking / about the things that mattered to us then: / the most vivid ways to live, how to keep the fire / ablaze inside; the girls we’d loved, the women / we’d meet someday.

June 2013

Poetry

The Lake

June 2009

Poetry

The Stranger

February 2008

Poetry

For One Entire Day

May 1994

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