Michael Anania

Michael Anania: is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer born in Omaha, Nebraska.  His published work includes numerous collections of poetry, among them, Selected Poems (l994), In Natural Light (1999) and Heat Lines (2006).  His poetry is widely anthologized and has been translated into Italian, German, French, Spanish, and Czech.  Seeking to work with the archives of of poet William Carlos Williams, he pursued graduate work in the 1960s at SUNY Buffalo.  He was one of the founding members of the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His papers from the 1950s through 2006 are archived at the University of Chicago Library.