Max Orkis‘s prose and poetry have appeared in The Bookends Review, The Fictional Café, Grand Little Things, North Dakota Quarterly, the Atomic Flyswatter anthology, Weber — The Contemporary West, The Milo Review, Empty Sink, Words with JAM, the 2011 Grigoryev Competition anthology, Topos, Polutona, Dvoetochie:, and elsewhere. He lives in California with his family and works as an English teacher, a writer/editor in tech, and a narrative designer in mobile games. Read more at https://maxorkis.wordpress.com/publications.
PRAISE:
A Max Orkis poem thrums with the tension between feeling and function. Engaging the wisdom and reflection of a sage, he hopscotches with childlike curiosity—and a dash of anxiety—through reflections, memories, and dreams.
–Meredith Suter-Wadley, author of “The Great Divide” and “Departure” in Our Best War Stories
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“Lines to Time” is a small book with a big heart. For Max Orkis, poetry is the body’s way of measuring time: breath makes words and touch shapes thought, yet “lines render nothing clear.” The world is made of nearness and distance where meaning emerges not as certainty but as an ethical choice: to live well is to intuit, to feel what calls for closeness and what requires space, choosing when to bridge the gap and when to keep a respectful orbit. This poet’s wisdom is the portable skill of calibrating space with care. Time runs through us — breath, bodies, attention — and because everything is fragile and vanishing, care is the measure that we give each other. Everyone carries hidden trouble, so the sane stance is steady kindness without illusions.
–Philip Nikolayev, author of Letters from Aldenderry
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Rhythm and tone deserve a voice to bring such incantations to life. Read, if you like, but speak and you will be rewarded.
–JJ Marsh, author of The Beatrice Stubbs series
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