Macklin Finley is an American poet and writer. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1977, Finley's poems first began to appear in 'zines (small handmade informal journals) in Detroit in the mid-nineties. In 1995, he moved from Detroit to New Orleans, Louisiana, and with his mother, Susan Finley, began work on a research project involving homeless youth living in and around the French Quarter. Their collaboratively written short story on the subject, Sp'ange: A research story appeared in Qualitative Inquiry in 1999. In 2001, Macklin's first full length collection of poems, Street Ratwas published by Green Room/University of Detroit Mercy Press.
Finley then traveled the country extensively, returning to both Detroit and New Orleans, but also hosting open mic poetry readings in Boulder, Colorado and Portland, Oregon. In 2003, he moved to Mandeville, Louisiana where he lived with his wife and children until Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. He and his family moved to Burlington, Vermont in November of that year and Finley began publishing again; a full length collection Pure Ether Funkwas released by Poet's Bones Press in 2006, Hairy Engines with Wings a chapbook was released by the Parima Poet's Publishing Collective in 2008, and his first novel, The Mutt was relesed by The Minimal Press in 2009.
|
