Mike has been hanging around the poetry scene of Portsmouth and the Seacoast for twenty years. He has been participating in Beat Night for 19 of its 24 years and hosting and organizing it for the last 10. Mike was the 11th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth from April 2017 to April 2019 and he is the founder of Bee Monk Press as well as Hive Poetry Project and Space Bee Studio.