April 2026, Mpls, MN – Michael Dennis Browne, acclaimed poet and librettist, loving husband and father, and adored granddad, died at age 85 on March 29. He died peacefully and was surrounded by family.

Michael Dennis Browne was born on May 28, 1940 in Walton-on-Thames, England. He attended St. George’s College, Hull and Oxford Universities and graduated with a BA in Swedish and French. He came to the United States in 1965 as a Fulbright Scholar where he attended the University of Iowa and received an MA in English in 1969. While still a student at Iowa, he began publishing poems in The New Yorker.

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April 2026, Mpls, MN – Michael Dennis Browne, acclaimed poet and librettist, loving husband and father, and adored granddad, died at age 85 on March 29. He died peacefully and was surrounded by family.

Michael Dennis Browne was born on May 28, 1940 in Walton-on-Thames, England. He attended St. George’s College, Hull and Oxford Universities and graduated with a BA in Swedish and French. He came to the United States in 1965 as a Fulbright Scholar where he attended the University of Iowa and received an MA in English in 1969. While still a student at Iowa, he began publishing poems in The New Yorker.

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