Michael Cirelli is the author of four collections of poetry, including The Grind, Vacations on the Black Star Line, and Lobster with Ol’ Dirty Bastard, all from Hanging Loose. He founded the National Youth Poet Laureate Program, and most recently launched its first international program in Pakistan.





From loose pages to issue 119 of our magazine, an anthology of over 100 HLP poets, over a decade of the Loose Award for translated works, the Founders prize for first book in its third year, and a bunch of great books in the works, we couldn’t have come this far without you.