Language Poet Michael D. Main, age 55, is the recipient of a competitive NEA / Indiana Arts Commission Individual Writer Fellowship (1992/93).
Publications:
“Quintet For The Apocalypse“ —Howling Dog Press (Boulder, Colorado): published March 2012— is Michael D. Main’s first commercially published book of poetry. A signed, limited, numbered hardbound edition is now available for sale.
This edition of Main’s book is produced by respected independent poetry publisher and custom book designer Michael Annis of Boulder, Colorado USA. To purchase: E-mail HDP at “HowlingDogStiletto@msn.com”.
The author gratefully acknowledges these literary journals in which his recent work has appeared:
Jivin’ Ladybug / Edited by Jared Demick / October 2009 and February 2011
Omega 7 / Edited by Michael Annis / November 2009
The Tower Journal / Edited by Mary Ann Sullivan / April 2010)
The author offers grateful acknowledgment toYgdrasil: A Journal of the Poetic Arts / Edited by Klaus Gerken for its publication of a selected portion of Quintet For The Apocalypse (Featured Artist: April 2011 Issue).
Author Biography:
Originally from the Midwest heartland in USA, Michael D. Main was educated (B.A., English; M.L.S., Information Science) at Indiana University. While in Indiana, he was competitively selected to attend workshops at the Indiana University Writers Conference.
During his years at Indiana University, the author studied Philosophy with Reinhardt Grossmann, enjoyed a stimulating season of coffee-house conversations with Douglas Hofstadter, took formal semiotics coursework from Thomas Sebeok, was initiated into first literature studies at the direction of Paul John Eakin, took a private winter-long seminar with Japanese Garden designer and Haiku scholar Kenneth Yasuda, and enjoyed a years’ long personal friendship with the elder brother of H.H. Dalai Lama, Thubten Norbu (Tagster Rinpoche, abbot of Tibet’s Kumbum Monastery).
Past publications include short stories and essays, popular culture analysis, as well as music criticism published in a member journal of the Alternative Press Syndicate.
An auto-biographical novella -Apollo: An American Life- was published as one of North America’s first commercial e-books by entrepreneur Steve Potash of OverDrive(Cleveland: 1997).
In 1996, Main emerged as one of the first literary e-publishers in the USA, founding and serving as Publisher and Senior Editor of Star Thrower Publishing, an exploratory and innovative electronic literary site on the Internet’s World Wide Web.
Main has actively collaborated with artists in other media, such as Flash Fiction/Photography public exhibitions in both Indiana art galleries and commercial bookstore venues.
Following upon an 18-year career serving both academic and technical roles at Indiana University Libraries, Main has worked as a career Senior Technical Writer in the software industry since 1998.
A West Coast poet, he currently lives in a re-habbed 1940s-era beach cabin and writes within earshot of the Pacific Ocean in the small commercial crab fishing port of Newport, Oregon.
Influences:
Literary influences include but are not limited to:
T.S. Eliot, Jorge Borges, Paul Celan, Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Galway Kinnell, Lorca, James Heller-Levinson, Michael Annis, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Nietzsche, Whitehead, Plotinus, Plato, Henri Bergson, Ernest Becker, Otto Rank, Paul Tillich, Robert Pirsig, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jean Baudrillard, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Heidegger, John Robinson Jeffers, and Loren Eiseley.
Links Related To Works Of Michael D. Main:
Poets & Writers (USA) Author Page:
http://www.pw.org/content/michael_main
Michael D. Main’s Facebook Profile Page (“Friends Only” Access):
http://www.facebook.com/Michael.Main1
Language Ltd & Forthcoming (Michael D. Main’s FacebookNews “Page”):
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Language-Ltd-Forthcoming-Michael-D-Main/164437506931936
Statement Of Copyright
Copyright © 2010-2012 Michael D. Main. All rights are reserved. Michael D. Main holds the copyrights to all works authored by Michael D. Main, including and not limited to all his poems, notes and photography posted on Tumblr. No part of these publications may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, republishing, recording or otherwise, without express written permission from the copyright holder. Although these works may be freely accessible on the World Wide Web and may not include any statement about copyright, the U.S. Copyright Act nevertheless provides that such works are protected by copyright laws.
