M. Bartley Seigel

Poet

Houghton, MI
Michigan US

Author's Bio

M. Bartley Seigel is the author of In the Bone-Cracking Cold (Wayne State University Press, 2025) and This Is What They Say (Typecast Publishing 2013). A former poet laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, his widely published poems have appeared in literary journals such as Poetry MagazineMichigan Quarterly ReviewAbout Place, and Fourth River, among many others. He lives with his family on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Ojibwe homelands and 1842 ceded territory, where he teaches writing at Michigan Technological University.

Publications & Prizes

Book:
In the Bone-Cracking Cold (Wayne State University Press, 2025)
Prizes won: 

2021-22 Poet Laureate of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Grand Rapids
Raised in: 
Lakeview, MI
Michigan
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Last update: Jun 13, 2025