MARCUS ELMAN

About Me

Marcus Elman is a writer who lives with his wife in Venice Beach,

California. He wandered and worked overseas for a decade,

comparing and learning about many cultures. He mostly has been

employed as a dancer, teacher, and businessman and for many

years has worked with the elder-sage population as a yoga/

fitness therapist.

Marcus is curious about energy, how things work and get

repaired, the idea of redemption, and our human capacity to love

—in toto: human potential.*

His chapbook, Because the World Is Spinning from MacQ is now available.

Orders available here.

His poetry has been published most recently in MacQueen’s

Quinterly (2024 Issues 22,23, 24 and 25). In January 

2023, Cultural Daily featured his poems “The Prosciutto

 Ambulance” and “The Offering.” His poem “The Crossing” was

 shortlisted for the Into The Void 2020 Poetry Prize. And his poem

 “The Boulevards of Los Angeles” received an honorable mention

 in Beyond Baroque’s 2017 annual poetry prize, was published

 in Cultural Weekly (September 2018), and was reprinted in the

 textbook Method &Mystery: A Research-Based Guide to

 Teaching Poetry by TreshaFaye Haefner (The Poetry Salon, 2019).

Marcus attempts to speak French as much as is allowed.

Photo by Maät Elman

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