Check out Blue Mountain Center, a working community of writers, artists, activists and musicians on Blue Mountain Lake in New York's Adirondack Mountains. Michele will be there from mid-July to mid-August.
2006
Check out Hungarian Literature Online for a review of the September 2006 reading at Nyitott Műhely bookstore in Budapest.
Michele was awarded a 2006 Travel and Study Grant from the Jerome Foundation to research post-WWII Budapest in Hungary. The Jerome Foundation was created by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill (1905-1972). It supports the creation and production of new artistic works by emerging artists living in Minnesota and New York City.
Michele gets a mention in a
Michele's manuscript Ink for an Odd Cartography was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press St. Lawrence Book Award and the Lewis-Clark Press Discovery Award. It was also a semi-finalist for the Tupelo Press Poetry Award for a first book, Eastern Washington University's Blue Lynx Prize, and the Main-Traveled Road Press first book award.
"No Swimming" received a 2006 Mikrokosmos Poetry Award.
2005
"Like a Sine Curve" received a 2005 AWP Intros Award and was published in Willow Springs.
"Commitment" received a 2005 Mikrokosmos Poetry Award.
Photo by Bob Asta