J. Michael Wahlgren is the author of the chapbook Chariots of Flame (2007). Influenced early on by the fiction of Hermann Hesse, Wahlgren studied philosophy for two years in upstate New York. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, where he edits and designs Octaves Magazine, and can be found playing guitar for his gray and white feline, or reading an array of modern poetry.

J. Michael Wahlgren's blog http://nightwaltz.wordpress.com/

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Praise for J. Michael Wahlgren:

I had the pleasure of reading several poems by J Michael Wahlgren. The tone of his work is very complementary to what I like to hear in poetry.
                  - Michael Wells editor for Rogue Poetry Review

J. Michael Wahlgren's Chariots of Flame is like a ripe berry: there's a lot of juice packed into such a small package. The variety of poems in the chapbook is astonishing. Wahlgren is equally adept at the short poem, as in "Notes," and the longer lines of "Arms." Read in one sitting the collection ebbs and flows smoothly, but you could be forgiven for stopping and chewing some of the meatier poems. "Is it safe to say I lost my way" begins one of those, entitled "August Deluge." But Wahlgren doesn't lose his way. His small collection moves like a speed-drunk road trip. And when he reaches the end with the powerful "Contradiction" you understand that the journey has been a spiritual quest, like all speed-drunk trips. "I write/as a way to behave," Wahlgren says, and I can't remember a more succinct reason for the quest.
                  - Corey Mesler, author of Some Identity Problems