His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Field, Tin House, and Narrative Magazine.
His second book, Flies (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), won the 2010 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
[3] He is also the coauthor, with his twin brother Matthew Dickman, of the 2012 poetry collection 50 American Plays, published by Copper Canyon Press.
He and his brother Matthew starred as the pre-cog twins, Arthur and Dashiell respectively, in the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Minority Report.
[4] Michael Dickman's poem "Scholls Ferry Rd.," published in Poetry Magazine in 2020, received criticism for its use of racist language.