Michael Hood has read and discussed his poetry at all levels of public education. He has done the same on radio, for those institutionalized from emotional and mental disorders, and at public libraries, churches, and a museum. His poems have appeared in many academic and non-academic literary publications, and in newspapers. His academic degrees are in history, literature, and library science. Hood, author of Cranberry Smoke, resides in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. He currently is working on two books relating to a 23,000 mile venture to all Cistercian monasteries in the United States: Motorcycle Prayer-Poems, and Journeys of a Motorcycle Pilgrim.