Mike Maggio

Welcome to Mike Maggio's web site, a creative space where you can explore aspects of his poetry, fiction and visual collage pieces. 

Coming soon from March Street Press:

 The Keepers has a tone of folktale, fantasy and waking dream. Even if the situation is present day, it feels like a tale that’s being spun for us. The stories are a force of writing with the consequence of characters guided by the author’s imaginings. Although there’s an emotional argument in each, kindness—more than not—defines the narrative; and our senses come alive with language, simple and true. The short story is said to be a courtship with the reader. If this is so, the reader will say “YES.”
Grace Cavalieri, Producer/Host
The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress

Note to fans of Mike Maggio’s arresting political poetry: On the surface it may seem the stories in The Keepers employ a comparatively conventional bag of tricks, but don’t think for a minute you won’t get caught in their grip. Mike Maggio the storyteller leans back in his comfy, authoritative omniscience and narrates in a voice that is familiar and charming, like that of a fairy tale. Of course a reader is immediately taken in, only later to recall that it is from the familiar that the surprise jumps out—and also, sometimes, the delicious terror.    
Madeleince Mysko
Author of the novel  Brining Vincent Home