From an Album of Verses

Michael Ruby is a poet literary editor and journalist from New York City. He worked for many years as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal. The most recent of his nine poetry books are Sounds of Summer in the Country (BlazeVOX 2025) Close Your Eyes Visions (Station Hill 2024) The Star-Spangled Banner (Station Hill 2020) The Mouth of the Bay (BlazeVOX 2019) American Songbook (Ugly Duckling 2013) and Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX 2010). His trilogy in prose and poetry is Memories Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill 2012). This book won the James Tate Poetry Prize 2024.