The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom

Michael Lee Johnson is a freelance writer and poet who created over 320 poems published in over 123 journals and online publications to date. He is a member of Poets & Writers Inc and Directory of American Poets & Fictions Writers: pw.org/directory. He has been published in the United States Canada New Zealand Australia Nigeria Fiji India and the United Kingdom.The Lost American is about one mans journey into exile over the Vietnam War many years ago his struggle his survival his road to recovery and strength manifesting itself through his prose and poems. Mr. Michael Lee Johnson lives with his best friend Nikki the cat and is content to be living in a small suburb of Chicago. His first chapbook of poems and prose is available for purchase and download at: http: //www.lulu.com/content/936633.Recent publications: The Orange Room Review Bolts of Silk (UK) Chantarelles Notebook The Foliate Oak Online Literary Magazine Poetry Cemetery Official Site of Laura Hird The Centrifugal Eye Adagio Verse Quarterly Scorched Earth Publishing Ken*Again Millers Pond A Southern Journal Apollos Lyre Fresh! On Line Literary Magazine Bewildering Stories Zygote In My Coffee Pens On Fire Black Biro (Africa) Sage Of Consciousness Prose Toad Literary Ezine Cosmopsis Quarterly (Book contributor) Mississippi Crow New Graffiti Poetry Super Highway Ink Sweat & Tears Taj Mahal Review Hammered Out (Canada) Stellar Showcase Journal Aboveground testing and many others. Published in United States Canada New Zealand Nigeria India and United Kingdom. Poets would be nothing without small presses.