MICHAEL KESHIGIAN is the author of six poetry chapbooks, Translucent View (Four-Sep Publications, 2000),  Dwindling Knight (BoneWorld Publishing, 2000),  Silent Poems (Four-Sep-Publications, 2004), Seeking Solace (Language and Culture.net, 2007),  Warm Summer Memories (Maverick Duck Press, 2007) and Jazz Face, recently released by Big Table Publishing Co. (2009). His poetry has been widely published in numerous national and international journals, anthologies, and a variety of periodicals as well as many online publications, including Barbaric Yawp, California Quarterly, Oyez Review, The Sierra Nevada College Review, Bellowing Ark, and Ibbetson Street Press.  He has been a feature writer for The Aurorean, Bellowing Ark, Poetree Magazine, Pegasus Review, The Illogical Muse, Cynic Magazine, interviewed by Boston Literary Magazine; Fall 2007 issue(bostonliterarymagazine.com/spotlight) and Reader’s Choice in the Fairfield Review. He is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best Of The Net nominee.

  Recently, two of his poems, Mt. Washington Cougar and Fish Cove were selected to appear in the New York City newspaper (both print and online versions) The Culvert Chronicles in early 2010.

One of his current projects include is a series of poems (Moon Poems) regarding aspects of lunar influences effecting everyday perspectives set to music (for narrator, clarinet, and piano) by Dennis Leclaire, composer and Professor of Music at Berklee College in Boston, MA. A sampling of poems appears on the writings page.

      Two more of his poems (Mustang Muscle/Theology) were included in an anthology of Baby Boomer poetry published by Poet Works reflecting the thoughts of a generation.

     His latest efforts will be published in the forthcoming journals later this year: Avocet, Barbaric Yawp, The Pegasus Review, The Aurorean, Ibbetson Street, Jerry Jazz Musician, Harp Strings Poetry Journal and Bellowing Ark. 

His short story, The Running Itch, is now online on the site Muscadine Lines.