Michael Bazzett’s debut collection, You Must Remember This (Milkweed Editions, 2014), won the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. His verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, Popol Vuh, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2016. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Oxford Poetry, 32 Poems, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. He teaches English at The Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  

Photo by Leslie Bazzett