Micah Ballard

Micah is featured in a portrait-formatted photograph cropped tightly around his face and from the chest up. He wears a dark blue sweater with a black button down over it. There is exaggerated makeup or face paint on his face, a black line running down the middle of his brow and nose, and one line on either cheek. His brows are also filled in with black and there is an orange yellow hue on painted faintly and unevenly across his face. He wears a tight black beanie and is looking directly into the camera. — © Lorca Ballard

Micah Ballard is the author of over a dozen books of poetry including Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books), Afterlives (Bootstrap Press), The Michaux Notebook (FMSBW), Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press),
Selected Prose, 2008-19 (Blue Press), Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse), Daily Vigs (Bird & Beckett Books), Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter), and Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Bootstrap Press). He lives in San Francisco with poet Sunnylyn Thibodeaux and their daughter Lorca.