Charles Michael Zwinak

Paper Hats Charles Michael Zwinak

Charles Zwinak's poems are inspired by history, art, and archeology. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he grew up in the Cass Corridor and near the Ford Rouge Plant, in a landscape surrounded by smokestacks, soot, smelting furnaces, ore boats on the Rouge River, train cars banging and rumbling in the night, and flares of light as steel was forged with a wake-up bang. He writes of agoraphobia, bridges and married love, often in the same poem. A long time-resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, he has fallen in love with muddy roads, constellations over corn fields, wild turkeys, and ice jams on the Huron River.