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New Poems By Micah Ling

Ling reads from her new manuscript called Settlement, dealing with the Palestinian Territories and the reservations of the United States.

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Photo: Courtesy of the poet.

Micah Ling

I have been thinking / about living / like the lilies / that blow in the fields.
-Mary Oliver

Micah Ling completed her BA at DePauw University. She earned her MA in Literature and her MFA in poetry at Indiana University. Ling is currently teaching at Franklin College and in the MFA program at Butler University. Ling‘s first full- length collection, Three Islands, and her second, Sweetgrass, were both published by Sunnyoutside Press. She was one of three finalists for the 2010 Indiana Authors Award.

Ling reads her poems “Hanna,” “Stanford,” “Elouise,” “Banksy,” and “Settlement.”

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