Aint Leavin' this House Rough-Dried - Michael Poage

Michael Poage was born in Virginia and has lived in 

New England, California, Montana and overseas in Latvia 

and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has ten collections of 

poems published prior to this new book. He worked various 

jobs before becoming ordained in the United Church 

of Christ and serving three congregations in Kansas. 

He has also taught at Friends University, Wichita State 

University, the University of Latvia and Dzemal Bijedic 

University in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he 

also served as Poet-in-Residence in 2017-18. When not 

in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he and his wife, the historian 

and writer, Dr. Gretchen Eick, live in Wichita, Kansas.