Mike Young 500

Mike Young is the songwriter for Clementine Was Right and author of two poetry collections: 2014’s Sprezzatura and 2010’s We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough, which was selected by readers of The Believer as one of the Top 20 Poetry Books of 2010.

He is also the author of the 2010 story collection Look! Look! Feathers, which Publishers Weekly called “relevant, wise, and immensely enjoyable.”

In 2019, he organized a 30 state poetry/music tour called The Blue Turn where he collected woes in a pie tin.

Since 2007, he’s run a small press called Magic Helicopter Press, which puts out chapbooks and full length books and interactive art.

He’s been a guest writer and featured performer at Treefort, Brown, Cal Poly, Emory, the Center for Fiction in NYC, and elsewhere.

Find him online at https://www.theblueturn.com.