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Aint Leavin' this House Rough-Dried

Michael Poage was born in Virginia and has lived in New England, California, Montana and overseas in Latvia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has ten collections of poems published prior to this new book. He worked various jobs before becoming ordained in the United Church of Christ and serving three congregations in Kansas. He has also taught at Friends University, Wichita State University, the University of Latvia and Dzemal Bijedic University in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he also served as Poet-in-Residence in 2017-18. When not in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he and his wife, the historian and writer, Dr. Gretchen Eick, live in Wichita, Kansas.