begin the work you were born to do:
wake everyone else.

from What To Pray For by Michael Kiesow Moore

New:

My poem, Say Gay, was published in International Times: The Magazine of Resistance. Let us all “say gay” together!

The Song Castle

Published by Nodin Press, The Song Castle, is now available on amazon. 

Hear Garrison Keillor read two poems from The Song Castle on “The Writer’s Almanac”:
The Year Gentlness Died
Death Comes Knocking at My Door

“The project of these poems is to make love material and the poet does it by paying attention equally to kindness and mystery. Song Castle is a heartfelt book that feeds the heart.” – Jim Moore, author of Underground: New and Selected Poems

“We are with such a human voice here: the sorrows explored, made real, the memories both welcomed and haunting, the use of old myths to tell contemporary truths, the presence and absence of friends, and the narrator, honoring love and its power on every page.” – Deborah Keenan, author of ten collections, including Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

Whimsies

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Whimsies is a collaboration with poetry Michael Kiesow Moore and his artist Mom, Nora Moore. This chapbook presents images of Nora’s paintings accompanied by poems inspired by her art.

What to Pray For

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Michael Kiesow Moore passes through veils to the other side of mortality and back again. His verse in What to Pray For presents transcendent moments, as when a gay man leaves a bowl of soup on his lover’s coffin or Nijinsky performs his last dance. Moore does not avoid brutal experiences, yet always he finds moments of shining grace. Join this poet in his testimony of hope.

—Denise Low, 2007-09 Kansas Poet Laureate

See my page – Sketching in the Woods – celebrating an artistic collaboration with my mom.

View and listen to a playlist that accompanies “What to Pray For” at The Poet’s Playlist

You can see photos from many of my readings and other activities from the past year by clicking on “Events.”

Artwork on this website – including the book cover for What to Pray For – are paintings by artist Nora Moore, Michael Kiesow Moore’s mother. For more see the Nora Moore page.