A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Michael Milligan

The Thirsty Lab poetry reading, normally based out of Princeton, MA, continues to meet virtually. Join us on Tuesday April 28th virtually on Zoom with none other than Michael Milligan, our featured reader!

Michael Milligan has worked as a construction laborer, migrant fruit and grape picker, homestead farmer and graphic arts production manager. Also a musician/composer, artist and writer. He took his MFA in Creative Writing at Bennington College (thereby joining the teeming mass of writers with degrees of dubious cachet), co-founded Poetry Oasis Worcester and was privileged to be an editor with Diner. His poetry book reviews, fiction and poems have appeared in Agni, Diner, The New Orleans Review, The Valparaiso Review, Chaffin Journal, Blue Earth Review, Illuminations and others. He is the author of Unless I Came Back to Tell You, Kelsay Books 2021. His second book, Failure of Flight, ICOE Press is due out in 2026.