Michael Rattee

Michael Rattee’s poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, CutThroat, Edison Literary Review, Flare, Heliotrope, Laurel Review, Lucid Stone, Main Street Rag, Pivot, Poem, Poet Lore, Poets On, Rhetoric Review, Santa Clara Review and other literary journals as well as in The Adastra Reader (Adastra Press, 1987), Men Of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America (University of Georgia Press, 1992), Proposing On The Brooklyn Bridge (Grayson Books, 2003) and other anthologies. His books/chapbooks include Mentioning Dreams (Adastra Press, 1985), Calling Yourself Home (Cleveland State University, 1986), Enough Said: A Poetry Dialogue Between Father Son (Adastra Press, 2002) written with his son, Kiev, Greatest Hits: 1976-2006 (Pudding House Publications, 2007) and Everything Green Everything White, a one poem handmade book illustrated by Gene Riggs (Apropos Press, 2008). He co-edited, with David Ray, Surfings: The Selected Poems of Will Inman (Howling Dog Press, 2005). He edited PRICKLY PEAR/Tucson, a poetry quarterly, and co-directed the Mosaic Reading Series. He has guest lectured on poetry in public schools and in adult continuing education classes. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry in 1984. Born in Massachusetts and raised in Vermont, he has resided in Arizona with his wife, Hannelore, since 1978. He has been employed in factories, as a maintenance worker, then self-employed as a design painter. He now works as a software engineer developing web applications for use in the electronic management of learning.