Background
Heller, Michael DAvid was born on May 11, 1937 in New York City. Son of Peter Frank and Martha Rose (Rosenthal) Heller.
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Poetry. "Michael Heller has one of the most distinctive voices to be found in contemporary poetry. WORDFLOW: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS showcases a major talent that will engage the readers mind and imagination on every page. 'To the morning traceries are ascribed hope and promise of a day/whereby an intellection is erased from the ordinariness of truth. /The mind secures, in semblances, the yellowed clouds, thinner/and whiter toward the West, those legibilities consonant/with a self always imagined, always beyond reach. And so the sky/is sown with futurities, omniscient scatterings, thought's/anointments. We are the impossibles of these wants, unloosing/out grasp so that, briefly, the hope of love may leave a mark. /As in waking with her from sweetness, a memory of completeness/becomes an enabling myth, and one awaits the requisite fears/which fuel our constant devolutions, the gorgeous realm abiding'"--Midwest Book Review.
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Heller, Michael DAvid was born on May 11, 1937 in New York City. Son of Peter Frank and Martha Rose (Rosenthal) Heller.
Bachelor of Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1959. Master of Arts in English, New York University, 1986.
Member of faculty, academic coordinator, American Language Institute/New York University, New York City, since 1967. Poet Poets in Public Superior vena cava syndrome, 1971-1986. Consultant Poetry in Public Places, New York City, 1971-1980, Ucross (Wyoming) Foundation, 1990-1991.
Consultant, judge Pennsylvania Council on Arts, 1989.
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Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Modern Language Association, Poetry Society of America (DiCastagnola award 1980), American Academy Poets, Poets and Writers, Poets House (advisory board).
Married Doris Whytal, June 6, 1962 (divorced 1976). Married Jane Augustine, March 5, 1979.