umuvme features MEL BRAKE. Brake is an award-winning Philadelphia-based poet whose poetry has appeared in Philadelphia Poets 2007 and 2008, Mad Poets Review, Fox Chase Review, and the Philadelphia Bulletin. In addition, Long Island Sounds: An Anthology of Poetry, Writing Outside The Lines (WOSTL) Anthology and Word Riot Magazine have accepted his work for future publication. He says his "love for poetry is like a cradle of freedom for personal and political expression."