We Are More Than Just This

What you see
as my strength
is actually
my hiding
my weakness.

Award-winning author of nine poetry collections, Michael Favala Goldman is also a jazz clarinetist and translator of eighteen books of Danish literature. His work has appeared in dozens of publications including The New Yorker, Rattle, and The Harvard Review. He lives in Western Massachusetts, where he has been running bi-monthly poetry critique groups since 2018.
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