An ambitious poetry of love and witness

Richard Michelson is best known as an author of books for children, including Ten Times Better,Grandpa's Gamble, and his newest, Happy Feet. He is the recipient of the Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry, the New Letters Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize. His is also the author of Tap Dancing for the Relatives and Masks. His poems have appeared in New Letters,Poetry Northwest, the Norton Introduction to Poetry, and other anthologies.