Michael Dickel's writing and art appear in print and online. His poetry has won international awards and been translated into several languages. Recent books include: a poetry chapbook, Breakfast at the End of Capitalism, (2017) and a flash fiction collection, The Palm Reading after The Toad's Garden (2016). Previous books include poetry collections: War Surrounds Us, and The World Behind It, Chaos.... He co-edited Voices Israel Volume 36, was managing editor for arc-23 and arc-24, and is a past-chair of the Israel Association of Writers in English. He is a contributing editor of The BeZine (TheBeZine.com). With Israeli producer / director David Fisher, he received a U.S.A. National Endowment of the Humanities documentary-film development grant through their Bridging Cultures program and wrote a documentary script about Yiddish Theatre.

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The selected and new poems in Midwest / Mid-East begin with an invocation, visit the Midwest, travel to the Mid-East, then settle into contemporary times within global contexts. Ranging from the lyric to experimental, the poems' rich imagery and language express the complexity and multiplicity of contemporary perspectives of life, spirituality, love, politics, erotics and (mis)communication. The poetry here expresses a self-aware and questioning intellect emotionally engaged in the world which constructs the speaker's uncertain identity.