M F Drummy

Poet

Longmont, CO
Colorado US
Email: 
[email protected]
Website: 
substack.com/@mdrummy56

Author's Bio

A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, M F Drummy is a disabled author whose poetry has appeared in dozens of publications, including Allium, Bloodroot, January House, Meetinghouse, Orange Rose, Penstricken, and Rattle. He has published two full-length collections of poetry: Perdido (2025, Main Street Rag Press) and Defensible Spaces (2026, Kelsay Books), which has been nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Originally from Massachusetts, he and his way cool life partner continue to enjoy their retirement in the Colorado Rockies.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Defensible Spaces (Kelsay Books, 2026)
,
Perdido (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2025)
Journals:
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose
,
Amethyst Review
,
Anti-Heroin Chic
,
Ars Sententia
,
Deal Jam Magazine
,
Emerge Literary Journal
,
Eunoia Review
,
Failed Haiku
,
FERAL: A Journal of Poetry & Art
,
Frogpond
,
Green Silk Journal
,
Heimat Review
,
Last Leaves Magazine
,
Main Street Rag
,
Mayfly
,
Meetinghouse
,
Modern Haiku
,
Muleskinner Journal
,
NOVUS Literary and Arts Journal
,
Pan Haiku Review
,
Poemeleon
,
Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka
,
Rattle
,
San Pedro River Review
,
Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
,
Under the Bashō
,
Wales Haiku Journal
,
Winged Penny Review
,
Word's Faire
Prizes won: 

Honorable mention recipient of the Haiku Society of America 2023 Harold G. Henderson Haiku Contest.
2026 Best of the Net nominee.
2026 Pushcart Prize nominee.
2026 Eric Hoffer Book Award nominee.

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Ted Kooser, Bashō, Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsburg, T S Eliot, Hala Alyan, Artur Rimbaud, Louise Glück, Bob Hicok, Jorie Graham, John Brehm, Walt Whitman, Ada Limón, W B Yeats, Susan Browne, Bob Lucky, Dick Westheimer, Jane Hirshfield, George Bilgere, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Maggie Smith, Charles Baudelaire, Mary Oliver, J P Dancing Bear, Traci Brimhall, Ethan Evans, Kim Adonnizio, Carl Dennis, Issa, Michael Lauchlan, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Claire Keegan, William Wordsworth, Donald Platt, Patti Smith, R M Rilke, Robert Creeley, G M Hopkins, Paul Hostovsky, W S Merwin, Billy Collins, Tom Snarsky, Richard Brautigan, Kai Carlson-Wee, J R Solonche, Jane Kenyon, Diane Seuss, Pablo Neruda
What I'm reading now: 
The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn by Dave Zirin, frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss, Startlement by Ada Limón

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Any, Seniors
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Boston, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: Sep 05, 2026