Michael R. Brown has published poetry, fiction, travel articles and columns in wide-ranging periodicals all over the world. His fourth book of poetry, The Confidence Man, was published in 2006 by Ragged Sky. Falling Wallendas (Chicago: Tia Chucha, 1994) is in its second printing of a thousand. The Man Who Makes Amusement Rides (Newton, CT: Hanover Press, 2003) won the 2004 Cambridge Poetry Award for best book. Susquehanna (Princeton: Ragged Sky, 2003) consists mostly of persona poems of the people of the small towns along the Susquehanna River where he grew up. That book was runnerup in the Cambridge Awards and is soon to be sold out. His newest venture is Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Show, a poetry ensemble performing their poetry in theaters. 

Brown holds a Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan. His dissertation was a literary history of the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance directed by Robert Hayden. For 45 years he taught at high schools and universities from the South Side of Chicago to South Korea.

Since 1989 Brown has been active in poetry slams, performing in Europe as well as North America. For 13 years he hosted the Boston slam at the Cantab Lounge, Cambridge. He is co-producer of The Culture of Peace, an international exhibit of art and poetry organized under the UN mandate for a decade of the Culture of Peace. He is general secretary of the Poetry Olympics, first held in Stockholm in 1998.

Brown conducts workshops in writing and performance. He is working on a novel and wants to teach for another 15 years if anyone will have him.

For a complete resume see http://michael.brown.name