Howie Michels

Michels (b. 1949) attended Pratt Institute. After college, he worked as the clinical director of a home for schizophrenic children and taught grade school art. In 1978, he and the writer Francine Prose had the first of two sons and moved to the Catskills, where he lives and works to this day.

He has illustrated five books of poems: Witt, (Gotham Book Mart, 1973)by Patti Smith,  Aunt Lettuce, Let Me Look Under Your Skirt, (Bloomsbury, 2005) and Night Picnic, (Houghton Mifflin, 2012, both by Charles Simic, and Pallbearers Envying The One Who Rides, (Penguin, 1999)and The Porcupine’s Kisses, (Penguin, 2002) both by Stephen Dobyns, also a limited edition of Peter Straub’s Koko (Centipede Press.) He has shown at the 55 Mercer Street Gallery (1990); at the Bowery Poetry Club “On the Wall”, curated by Elizabeth Murray; Rental Gallery, group show, 2020, curated by David Salle.