Modern Poems

It's never too late, right?

Did someone say it couldn't be done?

At age seventy-five, with no email, no Wi-Fi or computer, and only pencil and paper as his tools of the trade, from his one-bedroom apartment in Troy, New York, Michol started creating poems. Modern Poems seemed to take shape one poem at a time. Michol let his creativity flow as he crafted poems about holidays, seasons, and other themes.

Putting his heart and mind to work, he discovered a poet living inside him, screaming to c...