Work from Michael Broek's manuscript, Moby-Dick as an Allegory of Our Bed, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Literary Imagination, Parthenon West, MiPOesias, George Washington Review, Del Sol Review, and Fourteen Hills. He has received the Carol Houck Smith Contributor Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a Poetry Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts.