Michael Henry
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Michael Henry is co-founder and Executive Director of Lighthouse Writers Workshop, an independent creative writing center located in downtown Denver. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in places such as 5280 Magazine, Georgetown Review, Threepenny Review, Pleiades, and Copper Nickel, and he’s published a collection of poetry, No Stranger Than My Own (Ghost Road Press).

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Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition

Posted September 21, 2011 | 16:43:47 (EST)

I'm fresh off one of the high points of my life: watching Ballet Nouveau Colorado perform Intersection, a full-length narrative ballet based on 13 poems I wrote in collaboration with Garrett Ammon, Artistic Director of BNC.

I like to joke with my poet friends, telling them that when a ballet...

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What Work Is: What Labor Day, the Poet Laureate, Adderall, Mountain Biking, and the Philosopher Horace have in Common

Posted September 9, 2011 | 17:41:13 (EST)

Have I missed Labor Day? Where did you go, oh amazing national day off?

Well, perhaps I needed to have already experienced Labor Day 2011 in order to begin contemplating the meaning of Labor Day, and the idea of labor, and how it relates to the craft of writing, and...

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