Michael Ford lives in New Orleans. His recent poems are attempts to make up for all the math classes he skipped in high school. “These Violets,” for example, was composed with the help of prime numbers. The number of lines in each of the poem’s twelve sections is one of the prime numbers from 3 to 37. 11, which is repetitive, is used twice. Added together, these numbers come to 206, the number of bones in the human body. “These Violets” is included in the book Olympia Street, published in 2008 by Trembling Pillow Press.  He is also the author of another book of poems, Carbon (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006).

See his site on Yareah magazine and his fantastic poem These Violets:

http://www.yareah.com/magazine/index.php/literature-literatura/307-these-violets