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Michael Gorman goes by many titles, but I was thrilled to see this in my mail today, so I thought I'd post it here, even if he isn't exactly a "net" angel (seeing as how I go to his house every other week for our sabbat gatherings).


Luna?s Cafe
Thursday
March 24th

Poetry Unplugged @ Luna?s
Luna?s Caf?
1414 16th. St.
Sacramento

All Poetry Unplugged events at Luna's are Free of door charge and free of censure. The famed and much awarded 'Luna's open mic' precedes and follows the feature and is open to all, all ages etc. Readings begin at 8pm. Please come early for assured seating as Poetry Unplugged @ Luna's can go SRO. Thank you !!

Contact - Art Luna - 916-441-3931

Thursday March 24th.- featured reader - Michael R. Gorman plus special support slot provided by Merlen Toaffer. Merlen will also be showing some slides of his photographic work. Please join us for an evening of "Magickal Poetry" that invokes the imagination. - Hosted by frank andrick

Biographical information.
Michael R. Gorman, MA. is the author of the 1998 National Lambda Literary Award winning biography, The Empress Is A Man, published by Harrington Park Press, a division of Haworth Press, Inc. in Binghamton, New York. His first literary work was "The Happy Bunny," written in second grade at Mother Seton Elementary School. He is a poet of some renown in Northern California and a winner of Sacramento's Lambda Awards in the Arts. He is also a winner of the Sacramento Lambda Founders Award for his founding of the Sacramento Grove of the Oak, Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to the research, teaching, and practice of Pre-Christian Celtic culture and spirituality. Mr. Gorman is an ordained minister in the Celtic Druid tradition.

Michael earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theater Arts and then a Master of Arts Degree in Playwriting from California State University, Sacramento. He taught high school full-time for ten years, specializing in Creative Writing and Folklore. He also taught writing part-time at Cosumnes River College for nine years, and one year at Riverside Community College. As a Fellow of the California Writing Project out of the University of California, Davis and as a Mentor Teacher, he lectured statewide on the teaching of writing. He left full-time teaching in 1991 to pursue his own writing more seriously.

Michael has worked at various times as editor, journalist, and columnist for various newspapers in Northern California, and held a position of Book Editor for Tzedakah Press. He has been published in Genre Magazine, The Bay Area Reporter, The Windy City Times, The Latest Issue, Outword Newsmagazine, and the Sacramento Bee, among others, as well as in numerous local poetry chapbooks. Several of his plays have been produced locally; his shorter dramatic pieces have been performed at local festivals and by a local street theater troupe. Sacramento gay community dubbed him "the Poet Laureate of Lavender Heights" (the gay section of town) at the annual Lambda Freedom Fair's first poetry contest.

Mr. Gorman is currently working on a book of stories from the raising of his son, and another based on his studies of Celtic Culture and Spirituality. He has completed a collection of poetry written during his recovery from childhood abuse, and is currently shopping for a publisher for that book.

He lives now in "Lavender Heights" with his life partner Dean E. Copsey, PhD., a computer scientist and their black cat, Sabbath. They had their commitment ceremony, the ancient Celtic ceremony of Handfasting, on Lughnasa (August 1st) of 1999. He is an ordained Druid minister and continues to teach through The Sacramento Grove of the Oak, Inc. a Celtic-based Pagan spiritual non-profit organization.