Author: Michael David Sowder

Poet, essayist, yoga and meditation teacher, Michael David Sowder writes about wilderness, fatherhood, yoga, Buddhism, and spirituality. Professor of English at Utah State University, his books include The Empty Boat, House Under the Moon, and Whitman's Ecstatic Union. You can find his work in such places as American Life in Poetry, Five Points, Green Mountains Review, Poet Lore, Sufi Journal, New Poets of the American West, Pilgrimage, The New York Times Online, Shambhala Sun, Poetry Kanto, The Bombay Review and elsewhere.