Michael Lavers is the author of two books of poems with the University of Tampa Press: After Earth (2019) and The Inextinguishable (2023). He has been awarded the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize, and the Michigan Quarterly Review Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets. He has degrees from Brigham Young University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Utah. Together with his wife, the writer and artist Claire Åkebrand, and their two children, he lives in Provo, Utah, and teaches poetry at BYU.

Find his most recent book here:

https://utampapress.org/product/the-inextinguishable

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a new rondeau that features an unusual noun that begins with the same letter of your first name.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem in which something is tasted on vacation that never should have been. Include a declarative statement.

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