by Milton Dawg, Michael Morical and Philip Miller Illustration by Philip Miller Renga Chunk 2 the thoroughbreds come and go talking of nothing at all 2 mutts sniffing each other’s behinds – intelligent design rotation of canine bodies: nose to tail/nose to tail she doesn’t sniff me anymore the trees are bare tracking her scent– […]
Author: Milton Dawg, Michael Morical, and Philip Miller
Michael Morical studied East Asian Languages and Literatures at Indiana University. That led him to Taiwan, Japan and India where he taught English and wrote about life there. His poems have appeared in The New York Quarterly, Barrow Street, The Pedestal Magazine and other journals. Finishing Line Press published Sharing Solitaire, his first chapbook, in 2008. His full-length collection, The Way Home, was published by Kelsay Books in 2016. He is currently a freelance writer in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Philip Miller taught at Kansas City (KS) Community College and directed the Riverfront Reading series in Kansas City. He lived in Mount Union, PA, where he edited The Same and co-directed the Aughwick Poet and Writers Reading Series. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Coal City Review, Cottonwood, Gargoyle, Home Planet News, the I-70 Review, Kansas Quarterly, Literary Magazine Review, the Mid-American Review, New Letters, Poetry, Poetry Wales, Rattapallax, and Thorny Locust. His sixth book of poems, The Casablanca Fan, was published in 2008 by Spartan Press. He co-edited the ghost-poem anthology Chance of a Ghost, from Helicon Nine Editions. His posthumous collection, The Ghost of Every Day and Other Poems, published by Spartan Press, can be ordered by contacting The Same: www.thesamepress.com. He was a contributing editor of the magazine.
Milton Dawg, haiku practitioner, lived in Mount Union, Pennsylvania with Nancy Eldredge and Philip Miller. He collaborated with Miller and Michael Morical on a renga from 2008 to 2011, commuting between Mount Union and Taipei, Taiwan.
Not one to count syllables in his haiku, Milton also enjoyed playing fetch.