Michael Shaeffer

The Poetry Exchange is an award-winning podcast and project that celebrates the role poetry plays in people's lives. In their first anthology, Fiona Bennett and Michael Shaeffer draw on ten years of archival material to bring together a collection of poems chosen by readers that know them as friends, presented alongside their personal stories of connection. Featuring Brian Cox on John Clare, Andrew Scott on George Herbert, Maxine Peake on Tony Harrison and many more, in this gathering of poems you can reacquaint yourself with old friends, perhaps make some new ones, and enjoy the companionship poetry can offer us. Friends that offer connection and solidarity.Friends that help us wrestle with difficult things.Friends that name our experiences.Friends that comfort and help us move forward.Friends we admire.

60 silly pages of vast coloring landscapes, lazy-butt illustrations, and creative rhyming couplets you can read aloud to your son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandkid, godchild, or that special sass bucket neighbor kid that you're forced to babysit. The collection cleverly covers all the letters A through Z--plus the letter P twice for no extra charge

National Poetry Slam poet and pop-culture maven Michael Shaeffer has taken each one of Prince's songs and created over 550 short poems covering over 40 albums and a handful of movies--all celebrating Prince's wild and weird persona through humorous, poignant, and funky little passages. Take a paisley peek inside this unique anthology and see how Prince's legacy connects to Jimmy Carter, Taylor Swift, Little Richard, Iron Maiden, Peter Dinklage, the coronavirus, Star Trek, Air Supply, Morgan Freeman, Stephen King, Meatloaf, Madonna, Monopoly, the Minnesota Vikings, Justin Bieber, Posh Spice, Superman, Tipper Gore, and more.