This website is to provide more information about the work of artist/author Michael Feil. Check the drop down from the Home page to see a resume and credits. LitWorks will allow you to order his most recent collection of poetry and from the drop down you can review current poetry and fiction. ArtWorks is a gallery of drawings and paintings. MoreWorks will launch blogs and provide contact information.
A short biography
Michael Feil grew up in small town Iowa in the post war auto boom, the baby boom. Graduating from high school he was faced with the alternatives of going to vocational school, college, or military conscripture (the draft) during the Vietnam Conflict. His desire to study art was not a priority on his parent’s hit parade of vocations to pursue. They hobbled him financially, and sent him to Chicago to study electronic technology. The young and impressionable Feil was taken in by a band of recently discharged soldiers and sailors and commenced to pull pranks on the student body and faculty. Electrocuting (mildly) a student and teacher, the group was asked to seek training elsewhere. Mr. Feil flirted with an escape to Canada, a career change to merchant seaman, all of which would keep him from conscripture. Mr. Feil folded, joined the U. S. Navy to see the world, hoping to beat odds on a trip to a foxhole with the Army, and spent most of his naval career in the middle of the Mojave Desert. A short sojourn cruise aboard the U. S. S. Independence to the Mediterranean Sea yielded the pleasures in food, drink, brothels, and history of the region. An avid gambler during these seagoing years he tucked away a stash to go to art school upon discharge.
Hurray for the G.I. Bill! Michael Feil went to art school, The San Francisco Art Institute. Studying under the influence, and under the tutelage of Richard Miller, historian, journalist, radical, Michael learned the practice of the distaff scholarship. Mentored by poet James Broughton, writer/painter Richard Fiscus and the painters, Franklin Williams, Sam Tchakalian and Thomas Akawie he was inspired to get a life and make art about it. Mr. Feil jumped back into the middle class to become a roustabout in the tradition of the English poets and bards of several centuries ago.
Mr. Feil has had day jobs as a small business intermediary(business broker) was a corporate sales manager, and has been a highly successful new/used auto salesman and dealership owner. He has also seen career service as a salesperson in advertising, publications, shirts, etc., as a truck driver, truck owner/operator, business owner( ground’s maintenance, trucks, car care), factory worker (black rubber, silicone chips, dairy), bartender, cook, machinist, airplane mechanic, & on & on & on.
Michael Feil moved on to pursue other career goals that would provide for advancement in sales and marketing and balance his desire to pursue writing. He joined Transport International Pool, Inc.(TIP) in 1986 as a sales consultant. He moved through various marketing and sales management functions to aid in developing the world’s largest used semi trailer selling organization. Mr. Feil has written plays, fiction, poetry and non-fiction over the years. “How to Buy a Used Trailer” was published by the transportation industry leading weekly Transport Topics. Mr. Feil had a play based on Jerome Rothenberg’s Technician’s of the Sacred produced while Writer in Residence with Synthaxis Theatre Company. He continues to write poetry, being published in small journals. Several articles have been placed in business journals and newspapers. Michael attended the New York University Summer Writer’s Conference in 1983 where he met his future bride.
Mr. Feil lives with his wife, a dog and two cats in suburbia, two children and and two horses live elsewhere.
Hurray for the G.I. Bill! Michael Feil went to art school, The San Francisco Art Institute. Studying under the influence, and under the tutelage of Richard Miller, historian, journalist, radical, Michael learned the practice of the distaff scholarship. Mentored by poet James Broughton, writer/painter Richard Fiscus and the painters, Franklin Williams, Sam Tchakalian and Thomas Akawie he was inspired to get a life and make art about it. Mr. Feil jumped back into the middle class to become a roustabout in the tradition of the English poets and bards of several centuries ago.
Mr. Feil has had day jobs as a small business intermediary(business broker) was a corporate sales manager, and has been a highly successful new/used auto salesman and dealership owner. He has also seen career service as a salesperson in advertising, publications, shirts, etc., as a truck driver, truck owner/operator, business owner( ground’s maintenance, trucks, car care), factory worker (black rubber, silicone chips, dairy), bartender, cook, machinist, airplane mechanic, & on & on & on.
Michael Feil moved on to pursue other career goals that would provide for advancement in sales and marketing and balance his desire to pursue writing. He joined Transport International Pool, Inc.(TIP) in 1986 as a sales consultant. He moved through various marketing and sales management functions to aid in developing the world’s largest used semi trailer selling organization. Mr. Feil has written plays, fiction, poetry and non-fiction over the years. “How to Buy a Used Trailer” was published by the transportation industry leading weekly Transport Topics. Mr. Feil had a play based on Jerome Rothenberg’s Technician’s of the Sacred produced while Writer in Residence with Synthaxis Theatre Company. He continues to write poetry, being published in small journals. Several articles have been placed in business journals and newspapers. Michael attended the New York University Summer Writer’s Conference in 1983 where he met his future bride.
Mr. Feil lives with his wife, a dog and two cats in suburbia, two children and and two horses live elsewhere.