Mike has been hanging around the poetry scene of Portsmouth and the Seacoast for over twenty years. He’s been participating in Beat Night, for 20 of its 25 years and hosting it for the last 10. Mike was 11th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth from April 2017 to April 2019 during which time he produced the first four issues of Good Fat Poetry Zine. Mike was Chair of the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program from 2022 to 2024 where he helped produce two more books for two other laureates: Poetry as a Bridge to Japan and Bread and Poetry Anthology. Mike was also on the board of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire for two years as the Editor-in-Chief of their Touchstone poetry journal putting out Issue 65.1 and The Charles Simic Tribute.

Check out Mike’s other sites Bee Monk Press and Space Bee Studio