The Poet and the Poem
2026-27 Series

Featured Mike Maggio

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Mike Maggio's publications include fiction, poetry, travel, reviews and translations in local, national and international publications including Potomac Review, The L.A. Weekly, The Washington CityPaper, and The Washington Independent Review of Books. His full-length publications include a novel, The Wizard and the White House (Little Feather Books, 2014), a novella, The Appointment (Vine Leaves Press, 2017), and a collection of short stories, Letters from Inside (Vine Leaves Press, 2019). A full-length collection of poetry, Let’s Call It Paradise, was released by San Francisco Bay Press in 2022 and won the International Book Award for Contemporary Poetry in 2024. His latest publication, a novella entitled Woman in the Abbey, won the Literary Titan Gold Book Award in 2025 and was a finalist in the 2026 Maxy Awards. His web site is www.mikemaggio.net.

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