Michelle Ortega is a poet who has been published widely online and in print. She especially values the work of small press operations and online literary organizations for their commitment to sharing art that impacts the current culture.
By day, Michelle is a speech-language pathologist; as President and founder of Communicare Ltd., Inc, she employs a holistic approach to support patients of all ages develop and recover communication skills.
When she’s not in the office, Michelle enjoys good food, New York City, road trips (local and long distance) and air travel. Especially to Paris. You can find her wandering local graveyards or looking for old carousels in new cities. Her cats, Prana and Lucie, only ignore her for a short while once she returns home.
Tissue Memory
Release Date: February 13, 2022
A microchapbook published by Porkbelly Press
available for purchase here
Other Publications
“Pandemic Journal: An Entry on the Expansive Space of Home”
“Grief, a Leaf, and Haibun Magic”
“Memoir Notebook: My Moveable Feast”
“A Raindrop Becomes the River”
“I Hardly Let Myself”
New Jersey Bards Anthology, 2023
“la danse”
Stillwater Review, 2023
“On the Pont Alexandre III”
Exit 13, 2023
“violet’s eye”
Humana Obscura Issue 6, Spring/Summer 2-23
“What the Body Recreates”
Snapdragon: A Journal of Healing, Fall 2022
“So Many Meteorites”
Every Day Poems 5/17/22
“Revival at the Hotel Biron”
“Love Lock”
Exit 13, #27 Spring/Summer 2022
“Notes”
Every Day Poems 3/7/22
“Let the Questions Go Unanswered”
included in the book: How to Write a Form Poem by Tanya Runyan, Sara Barkat, LL Barkat, editors; 2021, TS Poetry Press, New York.
“Dead River Road”
SnapDragon: A Journal of Healing, Winter 2021 (subscription)
Every Day Poems (subscription)
(forthcoming 2022) Earthsong: A Nature Poems Experience by TS Poetry Press
“After Luke 2:19”
“maiden-mother-crone”
SnapDragon: A Journal of Healing, Fall 2021 (subscription)
“Green in March”
Paterson Literary Review, Issue #49, 2021
“Pandemic Journal: An Entry on the Expansive Space of Home”
“As If” and “Brunch at Sadelle’s”
“Elegy (this is what agony wants)”
Don’t Ask Why
“Grief, A Leaf, and Haibun Magic”
“Unexpected”
“Miyuri”
“Over Her Shoulder”
“Grave Blanket”
Tiferet, Fall 2020 (subscription)
Tiferet, Spring 2019 (subscription)
Tiferet, Spring 2018 (subscription)
“Eggshell”
SnapDragon: A Journal of Healing, Fall 2019 (subscription)
“The Physics of Water”
“Show Me”
Exit 13, Fall 2018
Exit 13, Spring 2020
photo credit: Lisa Granozio, LAG Photography, Princeton NJ