Publications
On this page I maintain a list of recent publications, with links to some that you can read online.
Listen to some of my poems on Soundcloud
Hearing a poem is often stronger and more enjoyable than reading one. I’ve placed audio files of me reading eight of my poems on Soundcloud. Enjoy these.
Pick an opening line:
- “When spring began to breed mosquitos…” Listen (“DDT
(Or, a psalm to dichloro-diphenyl tri-chloroethane)” - “Jim writes, ‘I feel like the designated scribe of the apocalypse…’” Listen (“Bat Houses”)
- “Mame, du host fayer gemakht…” (“Mama, you made fire…”) Listen (“Mame” By Razjel Zychlinsky, read by Michael Jackman in Yiddish and English)
- “They kicked them off the field, the Yeshiva boys…” Listen (“Yeshiva Students Kicked off Baseball Field, Forest Park, Queens, Circa 1981”)
- “I was playing war with little men of plastic…” Listen (“Blackout”)
- “His Grace, Duke Gonzaga, exempted Salomone Rossi Hebreo…” Listen (“Mantua, 1606”)
- “There are some rotting joists in the crawlspace…” Listen (“Letter from Spickert Knob”; Runner-up, Raynes Poetry Prize)
- “How the rain, any rain, and the sun…” Listen (“How the rain”)
If you enjoyed listening to my poems on Soundcloud, you might like to hear some of my music as well. I suggest my cover of “Colours” by Donovan.
2018
- “Between Two Nothings” Community
- “Cut to Pieces” (Blackout/Erasure Poem) Orange Blossom Review
- “Hustler” Carbon Culture Review
- “Shvester” Spank the Carp: “Michael Jackman’s ‘Shvester‘ is one of the most unique and subtle memoir poems I’ve come across.”
- “A Song of Earth’s Ascent” Carbon Culture Review
- “Still Life with Knitting Mill and Working Papers” Gyroscope Literary Review
- “Tell Me What Part of the Earth is Breaking” Nebo
- “Three Apologies” Gyroscope Literary Review
- “Too Often Driven from Bed at 3 a.m.” Carbon Culture Review
2017
- “Metre and meaning in Jane Kenyon’s ‘Song’” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
2015
- “Cling” Postcard Poems and Prose
- “I Guess That Explains Everything” Louisville Review
- “i had it all wrong” Panoply
2014
- “An Object Lesson” Motif Anthology: “Water”
- “Mantua 1606” Jewish Currents and Raynes Poetry Contest
2013
- “Diagnosis” Hospital Drive
- “Goat and Kids” A Narrow Fellow Journal of Poetry
- “Ice-Bound Sister” The New Sound: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Arts and Literature
- “Lyre and Rosary” A Narrow Fellow Journal of Poetry
- “The Number Forty Bus” A Narrow Fellow Journal of Poetry
2011
- “How To Strip A Wall” Nulu Handwritten
- “My Orthodox Bar Mitzvah” Poetica
- “Thug-Faced Moon” Nulu Handwritten
2010
- “How a Synagogue Board Is Like a Sukkah” Scribblers on the Roof
- “Refuah” Scribblers on the Roof
- “Sukkot Tanka” Scribblers on the Roof
2009
- “New-sach” Scribblers on the Roof
