Michael Wright
October 3 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Magic City Books is excited to welcome back Michael Wright for a celebration of his recently published collection of poetry, Blue Morning Light, on Thursday, October 3 at 7:00 pm in the Algonquin Room at Magic City Books.
Michael Wright is an avid explorer of writing dedicated to examining the thousand-and-one questions about what makes humans so truly wondrous and downright contrary at the same time. His works range from novels and plays to poetry, radio drama and performance art/spoken word.
This event is free and open to the public. Copies of Blue Morning Light are available at Magic City Books or online at: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/blue-morning-light/2875.
About Blue Morning Light
These selected poems by Michael Wright are remarkable for their range of human experience. Life, within the magnitude of the cosmos, he says, is a paradox of love and destruction that he is “neither conjoined (to) nor severed (from).” The poems explore love and loss, faith and redemption, hope and despair, wisdom and folly, with wit, compassion and a buoyant love of language. They tender the reader a lively journey of relief from the agonies of adolescence, when the poet experiences “the heart-lift aroma of books, old and new in the cool quiet” of a library, to maturity, when he wakes to the blue horizon of a new day as “the year slips away / folds its butterfly wings / and turns into a mere wisp of cloud,” and the poet says yes to keep on keeping on.
Michael Wright is an internationally renowned teacher, playwright, poet, fiction writer, performance artist and stage director. He has conducted writing workshops in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Poland, Greece, Sweden, and Hungary, among other locales, and for numerous national and regional programs in the United States, including the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
His books on providing writers with scripting inspiration and insight (rather than “how to”) include Playwriting in Process, Playwriting Master Class and Sensory Writing for Stage and Screen.
His novels include Down the Ocean: Summer of ’64, The Chessmen, In the Air, and the short story collection, Purely Gone and Other Departures.
