Poets

Michael McGriff (born Coos Bay, Oregon) is an American poet.
McGriff was raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. His work has appeared in Slate, Field, AGNI, The Believer, Missouri Review, and Poetry. He is the founding editor of Tavern Books, a publishing house dedicated to poetry in translation and the revival of out-of-print books.
McGriff's most recent book of poetry, Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) chronicles the dissolution of a people and their landscape - the coastal Pacific Northwest.
McGriff currently teaches at Stanford University.