Michael Carrino holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is a retired English lecturer at the State University College at Plattsburgh, New York, where he was a co-founder and poetry editor of the Saranac Review.
His previously published books are: Some Rescues (New Poets Series, Inc., 1994), Under This Combustible Sky (Mellen Poetry Press, 1999), Café Sonata (Brown Pepper Press, 2003), Autumn’s Return to the Maple Pavilion (Conestoga Zen Press, 2012), By Available Light (Guernica Editions, Inc., 2012), Always Close, Forever Careless (Kelsay Books, 2016), Until I’ve Forgotten, Until I’m Stunned (Kelsay Books, 2019), In No Hurry (Kelsay Books, 2021), Natural Light (Kelsay Books, 2024), and The Scent of Some Lost Pleasure (Conestoga Zen Press Anthology, 2024), as well as individual poems in numerous journals and reviews.
Paperback: 44 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (October 14, 2026)