Michael Neal Morris

Michael Neal Morris is the author of Based on Imaginary Events, Release, Haiku, Etc., Music for Arguments, In Domestic News and other books. He has published a number of stories, poems, and essays both online and in print. He teaches Composition and Creative Writing at Eastfield College in Mesquite. He lives with his wife, children, and two snarky cats just outside the Dallas area.

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• Soul in Verse on July 27, 2011
  
  Michelle Hudson has the potential to be a fine poet. Many of the poems are too much like prose -- some are not so much verse as little short stories or essays with line breaks. Several poems need revision to make them smoother, more poetic, so that the keen subjects and ideas are matched by powerful and succinct words and rhythm. That said, this collection demonstrates one of the most significant and most necessary qualities in good poetry: honesty. Ms. Hudson's verse does not just touch on important subjects, but tackles them openly, letting the verse, not the subject, carry the weight of the emotion. There is emotion here to be sure, but the poet does not just hit us with the same old cliches and a bunch of exclamation marks, as so do many amateurs. She moves from prayer to physical desire so deftly and with such candor, the reader cannot help but want to follow along. And where the poems work within a natural rhythm, the impact is tremendous. Ms. Hudson certainly has read well and has the music in her heart and mind to write some good poetry. I look forward to seeing more from her.
  
• Some Poems on Aug. 18, 2012
  
  I am not sure what is going on here, but there are some clever lines and some thought-provoking images. Sometimes there is, perhaps, too much learning for the reader to digest, and perhaps there are some lines that could be polished so they don't read so prose like. On the whole, however, this is an interesting collection, worth digging into.
  
• Book Of Haiku on March 14, 2018
  
  Most of the pieces in this short collection are startling and powerful, as all good haiku should be. I do wish the author had put each poem on a separate page, and formatted the book for better readability. The poem, however, are delightful. Hopefully I will see more from this author.
  
• BOOMERANG (a POEM) on May 23, 2018
  
  I found this long (for most readers) poem quite interesting. The author works the metaphor well, and brings the reader around the ideas with aplomb.
  
• 3 Humans in a Forest on Jan. 02, 2019
  
  What I liked most about these poems was the keen and sometimes musical detail. They did what good poems often should do: force the reader to slow down and take in each phrase and enjoy the connections of images. Sometimes I ran across phrases I could not quite get, and I wondered if the thesaurus was used too much. But overall, reading this chapbook was a very pleasant experience.