Michael Henry

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Michael J. Henry, MFA currently serves as Executive Director of Lighthouse, where he also teaches poetry and memoir and essay workshops. A former recipient of a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship and a PlatteForum Fellowship, his work has appeared in such places as Copper Nickel, Threepenny Review, 5280 Magazine, Ekphrasis, Hippocampus, Many Mountains Moving, Pleiades, Red Rock Review, Rio Grande Review, Georgetown Review, and Bloomsbury Review. He's collaborated with Garrett Ammon of Wonderbound to create three narrative poetry performances, When the Power Goes Out, Intersection, and Gone West.

Michael grew up in Buffalo, New York, received a BA in English from University of Rochester and an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. In 1997, he co-founded Lighthouse with Andrea Dupree, who serves as program director.

He's published two full-length collections of poetry, No Stranger Than My Own and Active Gods (Conundrum/Bower House), and a book of nonfiction, Mountain Biking the Colorado Trail (Bower House). In 2017, he was awarded a Livingston Fellowship from the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation.

Michael Henry's Published Work

Michael Henry's Articles

The Lookout

Lit Fest 2017 Participant Reading 2

March 04, 2018

Listen in on some incredibly talented Lighthousers as they share their work. 

The Lookout

Lit Fest 2017 Participant Reading 1

March 04, 2018

Listen in on some incredibly talented Lighthousers as they share their work. 

The Lookout

Lit Fest 2017 Visiting Author Reading, Week 1

February 21, 2018

A killer reading at Lighthouse's 2017 Lit Fest, including some incredible readers:

The Lookout

The Speakeasy: With Philip Lopate

February 21, 2018

In this episode of The Speakeasy, Lighthouse Program Director Andrea Dupree and Executive Director Michael Henry disc

The Lookout

2017 Lit Fest Visiting Author Reading, Week 2

January 14, 2018

A wonderful, moving reading by several of the Lit Fest 2017 visiting authors, including:
Akhil Sharma

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MY MENTOR

May 10, 2017

I met Bill Knott on my first day of graduate school at Emerson College.