Two Poems by Michael Schmeltzer

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Michael Schmeltzer is the author of “Elegy/Elk River,” winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, and “Blood Song,” hisdebut full-length recently out from Two Sylvias Press. He earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop and has placed in various contests through presses such as Four Way Books, OSU Press, Zone 3 Press, and elsewhere. He has been published or has workforthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Meridian, PANK, Rattle, and Mid-American Review, among others. He lives in Seattle.