Outliving Michael by Steven Reigns
Outliving Michael is a memorial memoir in poetry, chronicling Steven Reigns’s profound friendship with Michael Church, who died of AIDS in 2000. Through vignettes and tender reflections, Reigns traces their intergenerational bond, a connection of mentorship, shared artistic pursuits, and the quiet acts of devotion that shaped their lives as gay men in the 1990s.
This deeply personal collection becomes both an elegy and an archive, honoring the countless roles played by a generation lost to AIDS: lover, sibling, parent, friend. Reigns preserves the texture of their companionship with unflinching honesty and lyricism, illuminating how certain people leave an indelible mark long after they are gone.
Outliving Michael is a testament to friendship’s power to sustain, transform, and survive even death itself.
Forthcoming by Moon Tide Press, September 30, 2025
Hardback, paperback, audiobook
Publisher Moon Tide Press
Formats & ISBN:Paperback:978-1-957799-37-7
Hardcover:978-1-957799-36-0
Audiobook: TBD
Pages 100