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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Scottsdale, AZ

Arizona US

Email:

mjhzen2@gmail.com

Bio:

B.A. in English Literature, Long Island University, 1973. B.S. in Computer Information Systems, Arizona State University, 1982. Computer programmer for almost twenty years. Three sons who also live in Arizona. Other poems published in: For Poets Only (Issue No. 19, June 1990); Romantic's Quarterly (Vol. III, Issue I); 42nd Street Trip (#16); The Advocate (August/September 1990, Vol. 4, No. 4).

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

No

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

Mark Strand, Louise Bogan, Wallace Stevens, Sharon Olds, William Butler Yeats, Katherine Anne Porter, E.A. Robinson, Denise Levertov, Thom Gunn, Kim Addonizio, Dean Young, Cate Marvin, Ray Bradbury, Emily Dickinson, Cornelius Eady, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, William Empson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Randall Jarrell, Mary Jo Bang, Richard Wilbur, Annie Finch, Dylan Thomas, Anne Stevenson, Joshua Mehigan, Dorianne Laux, Dr. Zeuss, Katha Pollit, John Koethe, Ellen Voigt, David Ferry, Margaret Atwood, Russell Edson, Jane Kenyon, Philip Larkin, Adrienne Rich, Daryl Hine, Carol Muske-Dukes, Howard Nemerov, Marilyn Hacker.

Born in:

Yonkers

Raised in:

Yonkers, NY

New York

Prizes won:

Joint winner in the National Poetry Month Couplet Competition (2016) of The Society of Classical Poets.

What I'm reading now:

Medieval English Verse by Brian Stone (translator)

Prefers to work with:

Adults