FROM MAINE TO CALIFORNIA: Michael R. Brown, Valerie Lawson, Richard Cambridge, Victoria Bosch Murray, Michael McDonough
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Michael R. Brown
Michael R. Brown was born in Philadelphia, raised in Lancaster County, went to college in Scranton, and began teaching at William Penn High and then Pennsbury High. Has a Ph.D in English and Education from the University of Michigan, where he did a dissertation on the Harlem Renaissance directed by Robert Hayden. He has five books of poetry and has performed, taught classes, and lectured in various world venues from Stockholm to Jerusalem, and South Korea. Instrumental in bringing the poetry slam to New England, he created both the Cantab weekly series and the theatrical show Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Circus. He and his wife, poet Valerie Lawson, publish Resolute Bear Press and share 40 wooded acres in Down East Maine with a variety of wild life and two retired sled dogs.
Valerie Lawson
Valerie Lawson’s work has been published in Café Review, About Place Journal, The Catch, Maine Farms, and others. Lawson has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize three times. With her partner, Michael Brown, Lawson co-edited Off the Coast literary journal for eight years and teaches poetry workshops in New England. Lawson served on the board of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance from 2013-2015.Valerie co-hosted the Boston Poetry Slam, emceed the National Poetry Slam in Sweden, helped create a network of youth poetry slams in southern New England, was invited as a Legacy Poet to the first Women of the World Poetry Slam, and participated in cultural exchanges with Ireland.
To learn more about Valerie please visit her @ valerie-lawson.com
Richard Cambridge
Richard Cambridge’s poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in Solstice Literary Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, About Place, and other publications. He curates Poets’ Theatre, a monthly series at the Arts at the Armory in Somerville, MA. He is a Fellow Emeritus of the Black Earth Institute which is dedicated to re-forging the links between earth, spirit, and society.
Victoria Bosch Murray
Victoria Bosch Murray’s poetry has appeared in Field, Greensboro Review, Salamander, Phoebe and elsewhere. She has two chapbooks of poems: “Prayer for Plum and Sinew” (forthcoming in 2020 from Red Bird) and “On the Hood of Someone Else’s Car” (Finishing Line 2010). She also writes prose, including “Blood and Endings,” recently out in Human/Kind. She has an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson and teaches English in Boston, Massachusetts, her heart home.
Michael McDonough
Author of – A Map of Barren Island and Radiocartography. Michael was a fixture on the Massachusetts poetry scene for over a decade before moving to New York to attend the New School. He now resides In New York and we love him nonetheless.
