Michael McFee
Michael McFee’s new book of poetry, his eighth full-length collection, is That Was Oasis (Carnegie Mellon University Press, January 2012). Other recent publications include a chapbook of one-line poems, The Smallest Talk (Bull City Press, 2007), and a collection of prose, The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview (University of Tennessee Press, 2006). He has taught in the Creative Writing Program UNC-Chapel Hill for several decades.
Reading List
Breaks
[audio:http://shanendoah.wpenginepowered.com/612/files/2011/08/Breaks.mp3.mp3|titles=Breaks] Work was something we did between breaks, those fifteen-minute vacations twice a shift when we stopped stomping the wide foot pedals that sent our massive machines into their cycles of bending or pressing or welding or trimming the steel …