January 15, 2025
Ring is now available in paperback and Kindle! Library Journal calls it “a modern classic.”
June 2024
My novel Ring is available for pre-order! It will be shipped in January. Pre-order is a way to support a book, because the number purchased during the pre-order period affects things like whether and in what volume physical bookstores carry it.
Ring is available on Bookshop.org, which I prefer because it supports local bookstores, but it is also available at Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
May 2023
My novel, Ring, is due out from Bancroft Press will be published in January 2025 and is now available for pre-order..
Today, an excerpt from the novel went live in Shenandoah Literary Magazine, along with a craft essay about its writing. The essay is titled “A Grief Explored.”
Shenandoah publishing the excerpt is a big deal for me. It is a very old and well-known journal, included in lists of the top literary magazines in the country, and has published people like Faulkner, Welty, Auden, and ee cummings. Lately, it’s published contemporary luminaries like K-Ming Chang. I’ve been a poet my whole life and this novel is my first real work of fiction, so I’m honored for it to debut in Shenandoah.
As you may know, I’m not on social media. I have this website, and I’m going to set up social media accounts for the novel in the coming months. But right now, I have none, so, If you read the excerpt and/or essay and like them enough to share them, I would appreciate it. If not, I wanted to at least share them with you.
The issue has a lot of interesting work in it, including a section celebrating trans poets from Puerto Rico.
Thanks to all of you who have helped me with the book, who were/are my teachers, or who have inspired me in other ways,
February 2023
You do not know yet to be lonely
you do not know
what it means to
wait.
My poetry chapbook Protection is currently half-price from the publisher!
” In Protection , Michelle Lerner explores the wonder and challenges of parenting from pregnancy through early childhood, taking on subjects rarely considered in poetry such as difficult labor, c-section, questions of gender identity and development in young children, and the experience of parenting while chronically ill. Throughout the chapbook, she comes back, over and over, to the eternal dilemma of how to balance the urge to protect one’s child with the acknowledgement of the child’s need for self-development and risk-taking, how to distinguish “the you from the me/ the definition from destruction/ the stumble from the fall.”
Get it thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/