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Michael Foldes (b 1946) is an American poet, publisher, authorand businessman. Born in Baltimore, MD, he grew up in Endwell, New York, later graduating from The Ohio State University inanthropology. In 2004, Foldes founded Ragazine.cc, a free, global, online magazine of art, information and entertainment. The bimonthlyzine ceased publication in December 2019. Partial archivesremain online at www.ragazine.cc.Foldes's publications and projects include the anthologies "StoppedDead: The End of Poetry," "In an Early Hour," and "Sand andSnow"; Sleeping Dogs: A true story of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping"(Split Oak Press, Ithaca, NY, 2012), and Sandy: Chronicles of aSuperstorm in collaboration with artist Christie Devereaux. In 2017, he completed Fashions & Passions" a series of ekphrastic poems incollaboration with artist Christopher Panzner. Panzner and Foldesrecently completed a second collection titled "End Game," 75poems with images created by Panzner in response to the poems.His poetry collection Some Stuf f is available as a Kindle edition onAmazon.Foldes's articles, editorials, poems, reviews, interviews and storieshave appeared in publications worldwide, some in translation inRomanian, Hungarian, Japanese, French and Spanish. Publishingcredits include l'Oeil de la Photographie, Where is the Jazz Festival, Mobius, Southern Literary Review, the Village Voice, High Times, TheSeventh Quarry, Paterson Literary Review, CLH/Romania, We Are YouPoetry anthology, From the Finger Lakes, Folazil (France), and Rosebud, among others. An interview with Foldes by Carol Smallwoodappeared in the Scarlet Leaf Review, and in Wilderness House LiteraryReview.His jobs have included lifeguard, grocery store bagger, potatopeeler, construction worker, magazine editor, newspaper editor, social worker, electronic component sales rep, and medical videoproducts sales engineer. One of his favorite gigs was bartending atthe National Poetry Society in Earl's Court Square, London, wherethe Guinness was warm and the patrons amazing.He and his wife have three children and two grandchildren. Theylive in New York's Southern Tier a few hundred yards from theSusquehanna River.