Discipline: Literature – poetry

Michael Broek

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Little Silver, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Michael Broek is a poet. His chapbook about John C. Yoo, the author of the "torture memos," has been adapted to a staged reading, and his book Refuge/es from Alice James Books was released in 2015. He worked on a new manuscript of poems called Drone.

Studios

Wood

Michael Broek worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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