
Mike Carlson is the author of Tips to Help You Do Your Best (Tupelo Press 2025), and Cement Guitar (2003), which was awarded the Juniper Prize. His poems have appeared in Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, New Letters, Seneca Review, The Southern Review, and others. He is a teacher at P.S. 107 in Brooklyn, New York where he lives with his wife and daughter.