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M. L. Liebler has read and performed his poetry around the world at the Dodge Poetry Festival, Poetry Project of St. Mark’s Church, Woody Guthrie Free Folk Festival, Annual Bumbershoot Arts Festival in Seattle, Hong Kong International Poetry Festival, Macao International Poetry Festival, London Poetry Society, University of Novosibirsk (Russia), the Substanz Slam Series in Munich, and in small villages throughout northern and western Alaska. He is the founding director of The YMCA National Writer’s Voice Project in Detroit; the International Coordinator for the YMCA of USA’s World YArts Initiative; and has taught literature, creative writing, American Studies and Labor Studies at Wayne State University since 1980.