Education:
B.A.
Oakland University (1976)
M.A.
Oakland University (1980)
Teaching:
Wayne State University-Department of English
1980-present
Macomb Community College-Adjunct Professor of English 1989-1995
YMCA
of USA National Arts & Humanities Faculty 1997-2004
Center for Creative Studies-Adjunct Professor of English
1985-1990
Program Director:
Director, Springfed Literary Arts of Metro
Detroit
2004-present
The
National Writer’s Voice Project of Detroit
1994-2004
International YMCA Arts & Humanities Initiative
2002-present
Wayne State University English Dept. Intern Program
1985-present
Wayne State University Resident Scholar/Humanities Center
2001-2002
Wayne State University Literary Series
1983-present
Detroit Public Library / Broadside Press Poet-In-Residence
1996-1999
Weekly Literary Host/Segment Producer /CBS Talk Radio
1997-1999
Weekly Host/Producer of Vision of Words /WDTR-FM 1995-1999
The
Writer’s Voice of The Downtown YMCA
1995-1997
Wayne State U’s Minority Task Force on Education
1990-1997
Summer Academy / WSU School of Medicine
1985-1990
Poetry Resource Center of Michigan
1986-1992
Books Published:
Greatest Hits (Pudding House
Press)………………………………2005
The Fragrant Benediction of Life (Bilingual
Russian/English) 2004
The Moon A Box :Poems of This World
(Western MI University Press) 2004
The China Journal (poems) (XOXOX Press) 2002
Breaking the Voodoo &
Other Poems (Adastra Press) 2001
Written in Rain: New &
Selected Poems (Teabot Bach) 2000
Brooding the Heartlands
(Bottom Dog Press of Firelands College) 1998
Stripping the Adult Century Bare
(Viet Nam Generation Press) 1995
Deliver Me (Ridgeway
Press) 1992
Breaking the Voodoo (Parkville
Press) 1990
Whispers by the Lawn-Volume II (Ridgeway
Press) 1987
Whispers by the Lawn-Volume I (Ridgeway
Press) 1985
Measuring Darkness (Ridgeway
Press) 1980
Recordings:
Crossing Borders:
Country Joe McDonald & M. L. Liebler
(Rag Baby Records) 2002
Paper Ghost Rain Dance
(Blue
Boundary Records) CD 2001
The Gift Outright
(School Kids’ Records) CD 1997
·
Videos:
M. L. Liebler & The
Magic Poetry Band on Public Television’s Backstage Pass (PBS) 2000
M. L. Liebler & The
Magic Poetry Band Live in New York City 1995
(Radio Thin Air
Videos & Warner Television-NYC)
·
Publications in Journals:
Exquisite Corpse,
Christian Science Monitor, Prague Literary Review, Contemporary Review of
Fiction, On The Bus, Gargoyle, Lilliput Review,The Windsor Literary Review,
Cedar Hill Review, The Paterson Literary Review, Long Shot, Hong Kong
University Literary Review, The Red Brick Review, American Book Review, The
Heartlands Today, Wordswright Magazine, Nexus Literary Review, The Big
Scream, The Bullhead Literary Review, The Great Midwestern Review of
Literature, The Underground Review, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Rattle”Poetry
for the 21st Century, Cottonwood Review, River Styx, Drumvoices
Review, Rolling Stock, Relix Magazine, The Detroit Sunday Journal, The
Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press,
The Albuquerque Daily News, The Woodstock Times,
San Fernando Literary Review, The MacGuffin Review, Mimesis & others.
·
Publications in Anthologies:
Identity Lessons
(Viking
Penguin), A Gathering of Poets (Kent State University Press)
Abandoned Automobile:
Detroit Poets of the 20th Century
(Wayne State University
Press ), Coffeehouse Poets (Bottom Dog Press-Bowling Green State
University) and others.
·
Readings:
Berlin Slam Poetry
Series (Germany), Munich’s Speak & Spin Series, Novosibirsk State
University-Russia, St. Petersburg-Russia and The Federation of Russian
Writers & Poets in Moscow-Russia, University of Macau China Literary
Festival 2003, Prague Literary Series, Atomic Café Performance Poetry Series
(Munich), Substanz Poetry Slam (Munich), University of Wales Series 2003,
University of Munich (Germany), Hong Kong International Literary Festival
2002, Poetry Society of London (UK), University of Wales, University of Bath
(UK), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Alaska’s 5th Annual
Authors’ Festival 2001, Fairbanks Art Association Literary Series,
University of Hong Kong, Macau University (China), Woody Guthrie Festival
(OK), Beyond Baroque (LA), Luna Cafe (LA), Seattle Poetry Festival, Paterson
Poetry Festival, The Dodge International Bi-Annual Poetry Festival (NJ), St.
Mark’s Poetry Project (NY) The Knitting Factory (NY), La Mama La Galleria
(NY), CB 313 Gallery (NY), City College of New York Annual Poetry Festival,
Guild Complex (Chicago), Catskills OutLoud Poetry Festival, AWP Albany, AWP
Atlanta, The Writers Center (DC), Atticus Books (DC), Center City Borders
(Phil), Robin’s Books (Phil.), Baltimore Art Gallery, Cody’s Bookstore (SF),
Black Oak Books (SF), SITE Santa Fe, Billings YMCA (MT), University of
California-Santa Barbara, Moon Dog Café (LA), Laguna Beach Poets (CA),
Mid-Mississippi Writers Conference, Aquinas College’s OutLoud Festival, and
many readings Canada & the US.
AWARDED
Best Detroit Poet
2004 The
Detroit Free Press
(Spring 2004)
AWARDED,
Wayne State University Global Education Grant 2003 & 2004
AWARDED,
WSU David McKenzie Honor Society Community Award 2003
AWARDED,
Wayne County Council for Arts & Humanities Arts Award 2002
FINALIST, American Book Award 2002 & Great Lakes
Book Award 2002
AWARDED ArtServe/MCACA Writer in the School for
Michigan status for 2001-2004
AWARDED
Wayne State University’s Board of Governors Book Award 2001
FINALIST
Paterson Literary Book Award (Stanley Kunitz winner) 2001
AWARDED Artserve/Michigan Council for the Arts
Creative Artist Grant for 2001
Awarded Poet-In-Residence Award at Northern Michigan University-Summer 2000
Received Wayne State University Excellence in Teaching Awards 1993,
1994,1996 & 2000
Nominated for Wayne State University Award for Community Involvement 2000
Nominated for Pushcart
Literary Awards in 1990, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000
Received Wayne State
University Quality Service Award 1993
Nominated for Governor
of Michigan’s 1998, 1999, 2000,2001, 2002, 2003 Arts in Education Award
Nominated for YMCA Arts
Program for Governor of Michigan’s Arts Organization Award
Honorable
Mention-Canada’s Cranberry Press Chapbook Contest 1997
Quotes on the Works of
M. L. Liebler:
·
“M. L.
Liebler is a piece of the reality poetry needs to stay alive...He is a
beacon shining for the republic (of poetry and love) for which he stands.”
Alicia Ostriker
·
“M. L.
Liebler is the backbone of the new literary renaissance.”
Bob Talbert The
Detroit
Free Press
·
“M. L. is
an American populist artist in the tradition of the Beat poets, Carl
Sandburg and Diego Rivera...” Ed Sanders
·
“Liebler
is a tremendous source of poetry energy in The Motor City & beyond.”
John Sinclair