Michael Kent

Michael Kent was born in 1958, a little west of Paris, France. His father was an American journalist whose poetry received praise from Ezra Pound; and his mother, an Australian, was an accomplished chef who liked Beethoven.

A writer, artist (painting & photography), musician, Kent published Les Maléfices du fardeau d'Atlas, his first book of poetry in 1985. He has written five novels, including THE BIG JIGGETY (Xlibris, 2005), POP THE PLUG (2012) and ALL OF THE NIGHT (2015)--praised also by Kirkus Reviews. Also, a number of short stories. He has published verse in English and in French. Other writings (and, on occasion, artwork) have found a niche in Happy, Kinesis, The Quill, The Urban Age, Voie Express USA/Por la via rapida, The Threshold, The Writer's Round Table and Moscow's renowned Inostrania Literatura (next to T.C. Boyle).

His works have been translated into Spanish and Russian. A one-time journalist, he studied poetry at the University of Montana (under Richard Hugo) and edited a literary magazine in Brunswick, Maine (at Bowdoin College, alma mater to Hawthorne and Longfellow).

He currently earns a living in Washington, DC as a French-English interpreter/translator.

His art work and photography can be seen on Flickr.com (see "Big Jiggety"), Facebook, Instagram and ArtStack. His (500+) music videos can be seen on You Tube, where he performs as Big Jiggety, sometimes with renowned brother Ian Kent and with band Lads in the Wind.