Michael Rothenberg
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This is What Falls by Michael Rothenberg
Location: Picnic Table near the Historic Centennial Field Wall
Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, editor, and environmentalist. Rothenberg received his Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA in Poetics at New College of California. In 1976, he began Shelldance Orchid Gardens, an orchid and bromeliad nursery. He later co-founder Big Bridge Press, a fine print literary press. Rothenberg is editor of Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry, as well as the co-editor and co-founder of Jack Magazine. In 2011, Rothenberg and his partner Terri Carrion co-founded 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a global poetry and arts movement with an emphasis on peace, justice, sustainability and education. He currently serves as the Florida State University Libraries Poet in Residence.
