MICHAEL R. BROWN

PO Box 14
1175 US Rt. 1
Robbinston, ME 04671
207-454-8026
mrbrown64@msn.com

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English and Education, University of Michigan, 1971

English major: Modern British and American Literature

Education major: Curriculum and Instruction

Dissertation: Five Afro-American Poets: A Literary History of the Major Poets and Their Poetry in the Harlem Renaissance, directed by Robert Hayden

M.Ed., Secondary Education, Temple University, 1966

(Intern Teaching Program)

B.A., English and Philosophy, University of Scranton, 1962

Permanent Teaching Certificate: Secondary English (PA)

Provisional Teaching License: Secondary Language Arts (ME), 2007-2012

TEACHING and
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Northern California University

A committee preparing the university for accreditation as an online university. 2009-2010.

Shead High School, Eastport, Maine

Senior high literature, writing, poetry, and creative writing. 2007-2008.

Mount Ida College

Director of the Communications Program (1999-2002, 2004-6). Teaching English, communications, Creativity, journalism, ESL, voice and performance, Intercultural Communications, and Native American History. 1992-2006

Clark University

Taught one course per semester in graduate program for teachers of English as a second language: Adults and International Education, Modern Grammar, and Methods of Teaching. 1990-93.

University of Rhode Island

Adjunct in Writing. Taught Scientific and Technical Writing, Business Communications, Freshman Writing, and American Literature. 1991-92.

Suffolk University

Lecturer, half time. Taught Freshman Composition, Introduction to Literature, and ESL reading and writing. 1991-92.

Roosevelt University,

Little Village Center. Instructor, part time. Taught basic composition, 1991

Chicago State University

Associate Professor and Coordinator of Composition. Taught composition (including non-native speakers), Creative Writing, Writing in Natural Science, African-American Literature, English Language, Literary Criticism, and Editing. 1983-91.

University of Suwon, Korea.

Exchange professor. Taught English conversation and composition. 1986-87.

Uptown Center, Elmhurst College and North Park College.

Taught developmental writing, freshman composition, literature and journalism. 1980-85.

University of Illinois--Chicago

Assistant Chairman of Composition (Acting Chairman of Composition and Acting Chairman of English Education). Taught writing, methods, Modern Grammars, and seminars analyzing writing. Supervised graduate students and lecturers. 1976-80.

Western Michigan University

Taught composition, creative writing, and teaching methods. Invented and taught Writing & Science. 1973-76.

Central (Ohio) State University

Acting Chairman of English (including speech, journalism, theater, radio, and television). Taught composition, speech, Afro-American and African literatures. 1972-73.

East Texas State University

Director of Internships. Supervised doctoral students' teaching. Taught writing, poetry, graduate methods, research design, and cross-cultural education. With a physicist, psychologist, and literary specialist, designed and taught Science & Fiction. 1970-72.

University of Michigan.

Teaching Fellow in English, academic counselor, Lecturer in the English Language Institute. Taught freshman, intermediate and advanced composition and creative writing. Taught professors of English from the Soviet Union. 1967-71.

Temple University

Graduate School of Education. Taught Introduction to Education, Adolescent Psychology, and several methods courses. Supervised intern teachers. 1966-67.

University of Akron

Language Arts Specialist, National Defense Education Act Institute for Teachers of the Disadvantaged. 1965.

Pennsbury High School, Fallsington, PA.

Taught English, speech, drama, and creative writing. 1965-67.

The Philadelphia Public Schools.

Taught English at Central HS and William Penn HS for Girls. 1962-65.

HONORS

• Winner, Best Serious Poem, York (PA) Arts Competition for "The Police Chief," 2006.
• Winner, 2006 Mulberry Poets and Writers Annual Competition for "The Confidence Man."
• Who's Who in American Education, 1989-90, 2006-8.
• Who's Who in America, 2004-2010.
• Cambridge Poetry Awards, 2004: Best book for The Man Who Makes Amusement Rides, Performance Poet of the Year, Best Short Poem for "The Handyman at Tanglewood," Best Male Slam Poet, Best Poetry Troupe for Off Broadway Poetry.
• Delivered a poem to the masters of Eton College on National Poetry Day, October 9, 2003.
• Director of Writing/Poetry, U.S. Scholar-Athlete Games, June, 2003.
• Featured poet, benefit for Iraqi families, Club Passim, Cambridge, MA, December 26, 2002.
• Sabbatical, Mount Ida College, 2003.
• Guest MC and speaker, The Swedish National Poetry Slam Championships, Umea, May 6-13, 2002
• Poetry Director, The World Scholar-Athlete Games, 2001
• Witness to State Violence and Oppression, featured poetry reader, Boston College, March 16, 2000
• The First Ronald J. Lettieri Award for Teaching Excellence, Mount Ida College, 1999
• Mount Ida Faculty grant of $1200 to promote the Poetry Olympics, 1999-2000.
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 1998.
• Guest Lecturer, Poetry Delivery Systems, Hamburg University, January 28, 1998.
• Mount Ida Faculty grant of $2200 for travel to promote the Poetry Olympics, 1997-98
• Participant, East Asia Studies Seminar, Smith College, June, 1997.
• A Piece of Peace, exhibit at The Peace Museum, Chicago, September 30--November 26, 1994, containing the poem "Absalom, Absalom," and four photographs from South Korea.
• Guest Lecturer, African American Literature, University of Stockholm, November 19, 1991.
• Featured Reader, Neutral Turf, Chicago's Lakefront Poetry Festival, 1990.
• Finalist, Poem for Osaka Competition, with the poem "Odysseus Comes Home," Chicago, 1990.
• Guest Lecturer, Sensible Nonsense English, National Taiwan Normal University, January 8, 1988.
• Illinois Arts Council Writer in Residence, 1982-83 and 1980-81.
• Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for the poem "Miss Brooks," 1979.
• National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar in literary theory, University of California at Berkeley, 1975.

PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC

• "The International Community," Mantis (Stanford, 2000), 57-58.
• (review) The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments between Language and Literature, edited by Nigel Fabb, Derek Attridge, Alan Durant and Colin MacCabe (NY: Methuen, 1987) in the Journal of English Linguistics (forthcoming).
• Monthly column contrasting English and Korean languages and cultures in The English Age, a bi-lingual journal published in Seoul, January through August, 1988.
• "Producing Fiction," Illinois Schools Journal, LXVIII, 3 (fall, 1978), 46-50.
• "Soul Catcher," English Journal, LXI, 1 (January, 1976), 57.
• "Language Based Activities" (with Phyllis Albee and Michael LoPresto), The Michigan English Teacher, XXIII, 11 (December, 1975), 6-8.
• "Writing & Science: A Freshman Writing Course for Science Majors," ERIC document ED 103 901. Resources in Education, X, 8 (August, 1975), 51.
• "Situation Wanted: Elephant Trainer," The CEA Forum, V, 2 (December, 1974), 16.
• "Research and the Teaching of Writing," Freshman English News, II, 2 (fall, 1973) 11-12.
• Review article on W.E.B. DuBois: The Crisis Writings, edited by Daniel J. Walden, Journal of Human Relations, XX, 4 (fourth quarter, 1972), 491-94.
• "Americanized Orthography: Noah Webster and Spelling Reform," Notes and Abstracts in American and International Education, winter, 1969.

FICTION

• "Jimmy Ast Me," Journal of Modern Writing, I, 2 (winter, 2001), 33-35.
• "The Breakfast Man," Menagerie (spring, 1985), 3-17.
• "The Hawk," The Wormwood Review, XIX, 1, 27-29.
• "The Bookworm," The Wormwood Review, XVIII, 127-29.
• "Coyote's Dream," Pembroke Magazine, X (1978), 201.
• "Sunday Mystery Movie: Colombo" and "Sunday Mystery Movie: McCloud," Poetry &, I, 10 (May, 1977).

JOURNALISM

• News notes from the Passamaquoddy reservation at Pleasant Point for The Quoddy Tides.
• "The passions of slam: popularizing poetry from San Francisco to Stockholm," The WorldPaper (August 1999), 7-8.
• "Words from Out of Town," Tunnel Rat (October, 1997), 11.
• "Poetry Slams," Roads Less Traveled, The New England Folk Almanac, IV, 4 (Feb-Mar, 1995) p.3
• "Some Ways to Observe Black History Month," The Tufts Daily (February 22, 1993).
• "What's A Slam?" Atelier (October, 1991).
• "Sweet Home Chicago," Chicago Reader (May 6, 1988).
• "Bump in the Night," The Korea Times (January 14, 1988).
• "Incidental Education," The Korea Times (December 3, 1987).
• "Driving and Voting," The Korea Times (November 12, 1987).
• "Nuclear Fallout," The Korea Times (May 9, 1987).
• "Business and English," The Korea Times (October 1, 1986).
• "Students and Study," The University of Suwon Newspaper (September 2, 1986).
• "Skagway, Alaska: On the Trail, and Points Beyond, of the Miners of '98," Chicago Tribune (June 15, 1986).
• "New Orleans," Chicago Tribune (August 4, 1985).
• "Common Ground: The Tight-knit Variety of Boston," Tribune Traveler (March 17, 1985).
• "Homage to Robert Hayden," Commentary, LXX, 3 (September, 1980), 66-69.
• "Uptown Mobility: Inside Truman, a City College That Works," Chicago Reader, (April 14, 1978).
• "Ham and Eggs with Jethro Burns," Chicago Reader (December 9, 1977).
• (review) "Made in Illinois," Poetry &, II, 9 (November, 1977).
• "Window Fan Story," Chicago Reader (July 1, 1977).
• (review) After Drought by Ted Schaefer, Poetry &, I, 11 (June, 1977).
• (review) "The Sangamon Poets," Poetry &, I, 10 (May, 1977).

POETRY

Books

• The Confidence Man (Princeton: Ragged Sky, 2006).
• The Man Who Makes Amusement Rides (Newtown, CT: Hanover Press, 2003).
• Susquehanna (Princeton: Ragged Sky, 2003).
• Falling Wallendas (Chicago: Tia Chucha, 1994).

Miscellaneous

• "A Lagniappe," Bangor Metro (October 2009), 72.
• "Parents Held Hostage by Hatless Teen," Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems (Princeton, NJ: Ragged Sky, 2009), 50.
• "No Indians," Rubber Side Down: The Biker Poetry Anthology Archer (August, 2008).
• "Frederick Douglass," Legendary Sacred Fools (forthcoming).
• "The Avatar," Coevolution2: Shivering through the Details (2007), 31.
• "Hammer Heistand (The Police Chief)" Spoken Word Revolution Redux (Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2007), 59.
• "Batman's Attraction," Look Up In The Sky--Poems About Comic Books (Sacred Fools).
• "The Fiery Furnace," "Homeland," "1000 A.D.," "Star Dance," "The Police Woman," "The Badger and the Bear," "The Emotions of Dreams," "The E Street Band," and "Before the Wandering," Sensations Magazine, 40 (2006), 7, 40, 59, 92, 97, 125, 202, 210-211, 266 .
• "The Confidence Man" and "Any Summer Day," Mulberry Poets and Writers Association (first prize and honorable mention), Mulberry Poets & Writers Journal, VII, 1 (fall 2006), 6-7.
• "The Police Chief," York Arts Competition first prize, (August 2006).
• "No Indians," A Poets Tour of Harrisburg (2006).
• "The Ultimate Blues Bar," "Alicia Maria Hernandez," and "Looking Back," Megaera VIII, 3 (summer 2006), 16, 18, 19.
• "Decoys," Hooked (Sacred Fools Press, 2006).
• "The Man Who Owned the River," Watercourses: The Beauty of Our Rivers and Streams (River Light, 2005).
• "Nothing Depends," "Alicia Maria Hernandez," and "Any Summer Day," Mosaic(spring 2005), 4-7.
• "You, John Keats," Planet Slam 2 (August 2004), 36-37.
• "Mendelssohn Days," Mulberry Poets & Writers Journal, VI, 1 (spring, 2005), 7.
• "On the Train with Iris Murdoch," Map of Austin Poetry #300-4 (May, 29, 2004).
• "Tender Analysis" & "Nantucket Blue," Mosaic (spring 2004), 16, 38.
• "The Danube," Poetribe: Selected Poems (2004), 8.
• "Writing at Night with Miles," From Page to Stage and Back Again (Whitmore Lake, MI: Wordsmith Press, 2004), 14-15.
• "28 Things For White People To Do During Black History Month," Map of Austin Poetry, #297-1 (February 9, 2004).
• "Cross Country," Main Street Rag, vol. 8, no. 4 (winter 2004), 27-28.
• "Miss Brooks," Best of MAP Featured Poetry, 2000-2001, IV (2003), 14
• "All Quiet," "Dry Tank,"Hard Times," "Dave's Cave," "Absalom," "East St. Louis, 1917," "Like Kings," Sensations Magazine, issue 31 (fall 2003), 14, 29, 45, 54-55, 94, 132, 148.
• "The Leaves," Map of Austin Poetry #292-4 (September 30, 2003).
• "Lester Leaps In," www.nthposition.com (September, 2003).
• "King Philip's Head," "The Whiskey Rebellion," "Frederick Douglass," "Lessons," Sensations Magazine, issue 30 (summer 2003), 12, 31, 39, 42-43
• "Flying Arpeggios," Best of MAP Featured Poetry, 1999-2000, III, 37.
• "That Would Be Me," Freedom to Speak:NPS2002 (2003), 14-15.
• "The Handyman at Tanglewood," Map of Austin Poetry #291-4 (August 30, 2003).
• "Brother Blue," AHHHH! A Tribute to Brother Blue and Ruth Edmonds Hill (Cambridge, MA; Yellow Moon, 2003), 47-48.
• "Love on the Rocks" & "B.B. King," Mosaic (spring 2003), 4 & 15.
• "An Act of Faith: Driving to Maine with Marcel," di-verse-city: Anthology of the Austin International Poetry Festival (Austin, TX: April, 2003), 25.
• "The Ice Worm," The Spoken Word Revolution (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2003), 143-44.
• "Priests' Skulls," 100 Poets Against the War (Cambridge, England: Salt, 2003), 18.
• "Poe Was Right," Short Fuse (New York: Rattapallax Press, 2002), 62-63.
• "Magic," Map of Austin Poetry #258-1 (October 31, 2002).
• "Caprice," Map of Austin Poetry #253-1 (September, 2002)
• "Red Cottages," Asheville Poetry Review, IX, 1 (summer, 2002), 19.
• "Assisted Living," Mosaic (spring 2002), 5.
• "The Starlight Ballroom," Connecticut River Review, XXII, 1 (spring 2002), 27.
• "Mendelssohn Days," Sensations 24 (winter, 2001), 20.
• "Concerto No.1," Dance of the Sun, (winter 2001).
• "That Would Be Me," The Voice (October 31, 2001), 4.
• "Winter Water," Voices Along the River, 46.
• "The Tempest," Journal of Modern Writing, I, 1 (fall, 2001, 15.
• "Derby Day" and "Shutouts," Windsor Review, XXXIV, 2 (fall 2001), 9, 10.
• "Galileo's Apology," Sensations 23 (fall 2001), 17.
• "Concerto No.1," First Dawn Review (fall 2001), 7-10.
• "The Cat," Map of Austin Poetry, 194 (July 26, 2001).
• "Concerto No. 1," Shadows: Verse of the Mirage, (summer, 2001), 1-4.
• "Over and Over," The South Boston Literary Gazette, IV (winter, 2001), 41-42.
• "Killers," Mantis (Stanford, 2000), 72.
• "Ali," Poetry Slam (San Francisco: ManicD Press, 2000), 105-106.
• "Frayed Plaid Robes," Children Remember Their Fathers (Seattle: Gazoobi Tales, 2000), 54-56.
• "Mount Bethel Cemetery" and "The Window Maker," Son of Words, IV, 18-19, 25.
• "Reed's Beach," "Full Moon Tide, Strathmere," and "Early October in Stone Harbor," Sensations 20 (2000), pp. 10-11, 14, 17.
• "Just Another Dance," The Underwood Review II, 1 (fall/winter, 1999), 104.
• "The Man Who Makes Amusement Rides," On the Bus, 15/16 (fall/winter, 1999), 51.
• "The Mockingbird," Poetry for Rockport 2000, 17.
• "City of Night," The Map of Austin Poetry, No. 99 (September 27, 1999).
• "Boldly Walking on the Harbor," "Calder," "Over and Over," "The Cat," "Film Noir," and "Magicians," The Umbrella, I, 8 (August, 1999), 2-3.
• "On the Movie Set," The Map of Austin Poetry, No. 89 (July 19, 1999).Also, at
• "At the Dentist" and "Madness," The Underwood Review I, 1 (spring/summer 1998), 8-10.
• "A Mournful Wail" & "Baltimore Oriole," Sensations 17 (winter, 1997), 34, 66-67.
• "Choices," "Magicians," and "The Silver Screen," Sensations 14 (spring, 1997), 46, 190, 33.
• "Shirley Horn," "The Cat," and "Pleasant Young Men," Point Blank (1997), 5, 15, 24.
• "Fixing the Ford," Omnivore, V (February, 1997).
• "Killers," 'Pressed Streets, I,1 (winter, 1996-97), 7.
• "Moonlight on Water" and "Watching Achilles Sing," Sensations 13 (spring, 1996), 37, 24-25.
• "Madness," The First Live Poets Society Annual Anthology, (May 1, 1996), 10.
• "Clothes Rack," "Provincetown," and "Just Another Dance," Point Blank (1996), 8, 24, 27.
• "On the Movie Set," Soundings East (Fall, 1995), 14.
• "Joey's Kid," Poetry Fly, 11 (June-July, 1995), 6.
• "Forget to Remember," Red Brick Review (1995) 50.
• "Snow Drift Farm," The Live Poets Society (January 4, 1995), pp. 10-11.
• "The Beech Tree Is Dying," Sensations (fall, 1994).
• "Rosette," ...three thousand miles of origami cranes… (October, 1994), p. 9.
• "The Bitch Goddess," Sensations (summer, 1994).
• "Reflection," The Flying Dog, I, 10 (February, 1994).
• "28 Things for White People to Do During Black History Month," WMFO-FM (January 29, 1994).
• "Cleopatra," Defined Providence, I, 2 (spring/summer, 1993), 21.
• "Snapshots," Wail! (spring, 1993), 15.
• "Angels" and "Francois Gilot," Kameleon XIV (1992), 4-5.
• "Poseidon at the Point Diner" and "T.S. Eliot's Wife," VentureII, 1 (spring, 1992), 25-26.
• "The Ice Worm," Wail! , IV, 11 (February, 1992), 19-20.
• "Roadside Attraction," Wired II, 15.
• "Making Love to Death," Nashville's Poetry Newsletter (January, 1992), 2.
• "At Home" and "The Book Cliffs," Red Tree 3 (winter, 1991), 14-15.
• "Autumn," The Galley Sail Review, XII, 3 (fall, 1992), 41.
• "Melodious Thunk," Stray Bullets: Chicago Saloon Poetry (Chicago: Tia Chucha, 1991).
• "Dorothea Lange" and "A Summer's Day," Atelier, I, 12 (October, 1991), 2.
• "Perspective," "Tompkins Square," and "Shanghai," Stone Soup Poetry Newsletter (September, 1991).
• "In the Good Old Summer," "The Comedian," "Dawn on the Red Sea," "Francois Gilot," and "Statues in the Park," Amandla Ngewethu!, I, 1 (spring, 1991) 12-17, 19-21.
• "Aldi's Poetry Store," Wire (fall 1990/winter 1991), 1.
• "Killers" and "Bookshelves," Kameleon XIII (fall, 1990), 11-12.
• "Bearer Donates Body to Nature" & "Hard Times," The Galley Sail Review, XI, 2 (summer, 1990) 22, 23.
• "Batik Dreams," "Batik Writing," "The Dogs of Besakih," "The Gamelan Band," and "The Fencepost," Menagerie (fall, 1989), 15-18.
• "Deterrence," "Dead Men's Clothes," "Picnic," "Trains at Night," "Turtles," and "No Illness," Menagerie, (fall, 1987), 9-15.
• "The Rude Guest" and "The Night the Lights Went Out on George Street," Menagerie (summer, 1986), 19-21.
• "The Eskimo Exhibit," "Courting," "Consequence," "Daughters and Sons," and "The Poemaholic," Menagerie (1985), 41-45.
• "Prologue to the Wild West Show," "Navajo Spring," "It Begins," "Engram," "Reflection," "Artichoke and Onion," "Hawthorne at the Customs House," and "Propositions 1-3," Menagerie (1984), 55-61.
• "The Great Bear," The Vagaries of Invention (Kalamazoo: Sidewinder, 1982), 20.
• "Driving Wyoming," Banyan Anthology 2 (1982), 39.
• "The Denunciation" and "The Dream Carousel," Another Chicago Magazine, V (1980), 66-67.
• "The Potter's Mistress," Another Chicago Magazine, IV (1979), 12.
• "The Martin Bormann Dog Care Book," Oyez Review, VII (1979), 14-18.
• "Jody and the Tigers," "Chippewa Fall," and "Aerial Photography," Kudzu, VIII (winter, 1978-79).
• "Phantoms," Front Street Trolley, VI, 1 (winter, 1979), 3.
• "Garbage," Amphicroia (October 29, 1978).
• "Miss Brooks," Another Chicago Magazine, III (1978), 7-8.
• "Navajo Spring," Pembroke Magazine, X (1978), 202.
• "Propositions 1-3," "The Post-Graduate," and "Le Reve Actif," Another Chicago Magazine, I (fall, 1977).
• "The Great Bear," Front Street Trolley, IV, 1 (fall, 1977), 1.
• "Spacelab" and "Feed the Poet," Poetry &, II, 4 (November, 1977), 1.
• "The Swimmer" and "Contrast," Poetry &, II, 3 (September, 1977), 7.
• "The Snakeskin Suit," Rockbottom, IV (summer, 1977), 10-12.
• "Collaboration," Poetry &, I 5 (November, 1976), 6.
• "Occasion's Call" and "Two Bears and a Lady," Poetry &, I, 2 (August, 1976), 1.
• "Thoreau's Last Words," Greenfield Review, IV, 1 & 2 (spring, 1975), 29.
• "The Cool Bitch," West Coast Poetry Review, IV, 3 (winter, 1974), 52.
• "Stone Houses," Currents (1973).
• "Origin," "The End of an Affair," "Prologue to the Wild West Show," and "Eskimo Wedding," Pembroke Magazine, 5 (1974), 118, 120, 122.
• "Chimera #2," Blue Cloud Quarterly, XIX, 4 (1973).
• "Native Art," Pembroke Magazine, 4 (1973), 112.
• "Freedom" and "A Simple Lyric," The Yearbook of Modern Poetry (1971), 72, 93.
• "The Brown Bug," Since Feeling Is First (New York: Scott, Foresman, 1971), 103.
• "Snowed by Evening on a Woody Stopping," The Commerce (Texas) Journal (April 21, 1971).
• "Twilight," Encore, V, 2 (winter, 1970), 5.
• "Glare," Poetic License (winter, 1970), 3.
• "Fall Birds," Encore, V, 1 (autumn, 1970), 12.
• "Therapy," Poetic License (summer, 1970), 8.
• "The Brown Bug" and "Room," Anon, III (spring, 1969), 85, 86.
• "Magic," Beyond Baroque, I, 1 (December, 1968), 38.

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