Published Works by Michael N. Thompson
Books
A Murder of Crows
Michael N. Thompson’s A Murder of Crows synthesizes urban pastorals with caustic commentary in a poetic pilgrimage down the road of redemption. Thompson makes frequent pit stops for mockery and scorn, and the journey is punctuated by odes to serial killers and elegies for fallen heroes. His circuitous route will leave you dizzy and dark with the knowledge that not everyone is meant to be redeemed.
Verbal Alchemy
Deep inside the belly of the beast that's caked with the status quo,
politically correct meat puppets in denial that the Los Angeles riots
even happened, and suckerfish still living in an age when Kerouac ruled
the roost, ‘Verbal Alchemy’ was born like a cell in a Petri dish. Straight
out of an existence backwashed with dance hall girls, street dwellers
and dead heroes who communicate through visions, Michael N. Thompson
is merely the chronicler for these slices of purple mountain majesty.
Having a fascination with serial killers is just the cherry on this macabre sundae.
Also available for e-readers: http://www.amazon.com/Verbal-Alchemy-ebook/dp/B007SPPIT8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1336929831&sr=8-2
Dancing Inside The Mouth Of Madness
I kept the words I wrote in my head as a boy stored through
the loveless days of my adolescence and the alcohol induced
promiscuous years as a young man when I numbed myself by
any means necessary. The scars previously locked up bled onto
the page like rivers of repressed memories until they became
the poems you have before you.
Anthologies / Independent Journals and Publications
Publication | Title |
Toronto Quarterly | Desolation Boulevard, Sorry All I've Got Is A Twenty Dollar Bill, Juliana Redding |
Pooka Press | Story Of My Life |
Rusty Truck | Sixties, Unworthy Beatnicks, Holywood, The Bleat Generation, A Wannberg-Inspired Poem, Jack of Hearts |
Asterius Press | Spiders, Hubert |
San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly | Family Room, Postage Due |
Deuce Coupe | Between Daly City And Half Moon Bay, Anne Sexton, Noir, Santa Cruz Poet |
Word Riot | Pork Pie Hat |
Gloom Cupboard | Damned |
Scythe Literary Journal | Young Turk, Salve |
Full Of Crow | Fault Line, Shangri-La, Diablo's Circus, Tennessee, Bleach From A Dirty Glass, Mixtape |
Heavy Bear Magazine | Devil's Lounge, White Noise |
Blinking Cursor | Vignettes From A Postcard Town, The Hero In Side |
The Eunoia Review | Blaine, Girls Of Summer, Quicksilver, Inside The Joint |
Gutter Eloquence | Counter Culture, Binghampton |
The Rose & Thorn Journal | Guitar Town |
Lummox Press |
Blame Bukowski |
The Montucky Review |
Poems |
Zygote In My Coffee #138 |
War Stories, Bite the Capsule, Darby, War All The Time, Pocket Pool, Music |
Zygote In My Coffee #141 |
Green River, Electric Chuch of the Poisoned Mind, Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, So-Called Scribes |
Hobo Camp Review | The Downward Spiral of the Genuine Article, Texarkana, Another Wannsberg Influenced Poem, Hard Times Come Easy and Birth To Burial |
Fried Chicken and Coffee | Joplin |
This is Poetry | Crisp, Soliloquy for the Vain, While Writing Poems in Russian Hill |
Yellow Chair Review | Identity Crisis, Eulogies On Speed Dial |
Arsenic Lobster | The Waiting |
San Pedro River Review | El Rey |