Michael Ruby

Michael Ruby is the author of nine full-length poetry books: At an Intersection (Alef, 2002), Window on the City (BlazeVOX, 2006), The Edge of the Underworld (BlazeVOX, 2010), Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010), American Songbook (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), The Mouth of the Bay (BlazeVOX, 2019), The Star-Spangled Banner (Station Hill, 2020), Close Your Eyes, Visions (Station Hill, 2024), and Sounds of Summer in the Country (BlazeVOX, 2025). His trilogy in prose and poetry, Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill, 2012), includes the ebooks Fleeting Memories (Ugly Duckling, 2008) and Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (Argotist Online, 2011). He is also the author of the ebooks Close Your Eyes (Argotist, 2018) and Titles & First Lines (Mudlark, 2018), and five chapbooks with the Dusie Kollektiv. He coedited Bernadette Mayer’s collected early books, Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words (Station Hill, 2015), and Mayer’s and Lewis Warsh’s prose collaboration Piece of Cake (Station Hill, 2020). A graduate of Harvard College and Brown University’s writing program, he worked for many years as an editor of US news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal.