Michael Bishop

Biography

Michael Bishop, writer-in-residence at LaGrange College, has published numerous novels, story collections, essays, reviews, and one volume of poetry, as well as editing several anthologies, including A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (Thunder’s Mouth, 2007). His son, Jamie, did covers for five of his books.

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POETRY / Spring 2008

Jamie’s Hair

By Michael Bishop

His hair declared him his own bohemian, a middle-class free spirit
with a mortgage to pay down, a racing bike, a subscription to Netflix,
and a frau as deceptively frail as Hans Memling’s palest Madonna.