Michael Prior is a writer and a teacher. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and anthologies across North America and the United Kingdom, including Poetry, The New Republic, Narrative, Ambit, Poetry Northwest, The Margins, PN Review, Verse Daily, Global Poetry Anthology 2015, The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series. He is a past winner of Magma Poetry’s Editors' Prize, The Walrus’s Poetry Prize, and Matrix Magazine’s Lit POP Award for Poetry. His first full-length book of poems, Model Disciple, which appeared in 2016, was named one of the best books of the year by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and his second, Burning Province, was published in 2020. Prior holds graduate degrees from the University of Toronto and Cornell University. He divides his time between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Vancouver, British Columbia.
ARTICLES FEATURING
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Pandemic Edition
Lisa Russ Spaar takes a look at second books by Kathryn Cowles, Peter Kline, and Michael Prior....
Three Promising New Voices at the Identity Crossroads
Three new poetry collections mark auspicious beginnings for three poets: Derrick Austin, Michael Prior, and Phillip B. Williams....
