World Above poetry night features popular poet

The evening started with the usual Open Mic, and participants were allowed to read one poem that is less than two minutes long. Michael Broek, the featured poet read poetry and he taught the audience how to write near perfect poems.

Michael Broek is the author of Refuge/es, winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award for poetry, from Alice James Books, and two chapbooks, The Logic of Yoo, from Beloit Poetry Journal, which has been adapted to a staged reading, and The Amputation Artist, from ELJ Publications.

His poetry and essays have appeared widely in places such as The American Poetry Review, The Literary Review, Drunken Boat, Literary Imagination, Blackbird, Fourteen Hills, The European Journal of American Studies, American Literature Compass, The Journal of American Studies, and others. He has received a Fellowship to the MacDowell Arts Colony, a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and a grant from the New Jersey State Arts Council in Poetry.

He edits the online journal of poetry Mead: the Magazine of Literature and Libations. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Goddard College and a PhD in American Literature from Essex University, UK, and he lives and teaches in New Jersey.