MICHAEL GARRIGAN
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About Michael Garrigan

I'm an angler, writer, and teacher living along the Susquehanna River in southern Pennsylvania. My prose and poetry has appeared in The Flyfish Journal, The Hopper Magazine, The Wayfarer, Gray's Sporting Journal, EcoTheo, The Drake Magazine, and various anthologies and magazines. I am the author of two poetry collections - Robbing the Pillars and the chapbook What I Know [How to Do]. Feel free to reach out to me if you'd like to order a signed copy of a book, schedule a reading, or go fishing.

​Recent Publications

  • A river runs through it: Poet Michael Garrigan on the Susquehanna, students and hope - Interview, part of Killing the Chesapeake Feature, February 2021
  • Map of Mercy and Love: Thieve: Poems by Joe Wilkins, A Review - Terrain.org
  • "Coal Country Paradise" - The Hopper Issue V 2020
  • "The River, a Mouth" - The Shore, Issue #8
  • "Ashland" - About Place Journal: Works of Resistance, Resilience
  • "Post-Industrial Wilderness, Rejoice!," "Dead Water Deities," "It's Just the Moon." - Northern Appalachia Review, Issue 1
  • "Father Joe" & "The Last Hold" - EcoTheo Review
  • "Anointment" - The Flyfish Journal, Summer 11.4
  • "Upon Hearing that Snakehead Catfish Passed through the Conowingo Dam Fish Ladder" - Eastern Iowa Review, Issues #12
  • "Learning to Spey Cast" - Swing the Fly Magazine, Summer 2020
  • "The River, Dark" - Rust + Moth, Winter 2019
  • "Deer Mountain" - Split Rock Review, Issue #13

I'm incredibly excited to announce that my first full-length collection of poetry, Robbing the Pillars, is available from Homebound Publications! If you'd like a signed copy shoot me an e-mail! Thanks so much for your support! 

Places to Buy Robbing the Pillars: 
Signed Copies - Email me
Homebound Publications
BookShop.Org
Amazon
Barnes & Nobles

The headwaters of Robbing the Pillars begin deep in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania and wind their way through mountain tributaries before reaching the Susquehanna River. These poems venture out west through smeared Nebraskan skies, up wild Washington waters, and into the Siskiyou Mountains as meteors split the sky on fire. They traverse the wet woods of Maine along the West Branch of the Penobscot River to the peak of Katahdin. They hike the Appalachian, Continental Divide, and Pacific Crest Trails.
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In the early coal mines of Pennsylvania, miners crawled into the deepest parts of the mines, set dynamite, and blew joists holding up walls in hopes of getting the last valuable rock before the mountain collapsed -- robbing the pillars. The poems in Robbing the Pillars are the dynamite, the pillars, the rock, the mountain, and the miners. They embrace terrains familiar and forgotten -- those which have been stripped and left to become wild again. They explore the physical (geological, riverine), familial, personal, and cultural landscapes of our world as we rob its pillars.
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