Michael Bazzett

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Michael Bazzett is the author of The Echo Chamber (Milkweed Editions, 2021); The Interrogation (Milkweed Editions, 2017); Our Lands Are Not So Different (Horsethief Books, 2017); and You Must Remember This (Milkweed Editions, 2014), which received the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. His manuscript, Cloudwatcher, won the 2025 Gerald Stern Prize from American Poetry Review and will be published by Copper Canyon Press in early 2026. 

Bazzett is also the translator of If Today Were Tomorrow (Milkweed Editions, 2024), a collection of poems by Humberto Ak’abal, and of the Mayan creation epic, The Popol Vuh (Milkweed Editions, 2018).

Bazzett has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in both poetry and translation. He has also been awarded the Bechtel Prize from Teachers and Writers Collaborative. Bazzett teaches at The Blake School and lives in Minneapolis.