Michael Collier

Michael Collier is professor of English at the University of Maryland and director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury College. A new collection of his poems, An Individual History, is forthcoming from Norton in 2012. His poem, “The Bees of Deir Keifa,” from the Summer 2010 issue of VQR was reprinted in both Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.

Published in VQR

• Doctor Friendly, Summer 2011
• Necrophoresis, Summer 2011
• Cyclops, Summer 2011
• The Bees of Deir Kifa, Summer 2009
• An Individual History, Winter 2009
• A Final Antidote: The Journals of Louise Bogan, Summer 2007
• On Whitman’s "To a Locomotive in Winter", Spring 2005
• On Translating Medea, Winter 2004