8s

Michael Bernstein is a writer, bass player, and intermedia composer. He received a BA from Columbia College, and an MFA from Naropa University. His work has appeared in publications such as New American Writing, milk, and BlazeVOX, as well as in numerous chapbooks. With Michael Crake, he edits the online literary arts magazine Pinstripe Fedora. Michael currently lives in Cleveland Heights, OH.

"Michael Bernstein's '8s' are brisk, eclectic fragments, tightly wound but readily evocative. Their force is in a distilled brevity, words that come on strong but bring a willingness to linger, imagery kept center by Bernstein's sparseness and economy. With this latest collection, Michael Bernstein continues to establish himself as a poet on our radar, definitely one to watch."
-- Lynn Alexander, managing editor of Full of Crow Press

"In Michael Bernstein's galaxy, words are stars and poems are constellations. The poems make sense or unsense of the brilliantly mundane arc of our lives."
-- Suzanne DeGaetano, owner of Mac's Backs-Books on Coventry