John F. McMullen at Barnes & Noble: An Evening With the Bard Of Cyberspace

Open Mic’s featured reader tomorrow night at the Stamford Town Center Barnes & Noble, John F. McMullen, is a poet/writer, teacher and radio host who makes enthusiastic use of his background in telecommunications and new media to promote his work and that of others comprehensively across print, e-books, video/audio and other assorted online platforms--you can listen to John in conversation just last week with our own Ralph Nazareth on the “Johnmac Radio Show” found on blogtalkradio.com.

While www.johnmac13.com serves as the hub for other radio broadcasts, podcasts and assorted writings, John favors the pen name Johnmac the Bard for his collections, which can be found at his Amazon’s author page here. He has also developed social networks for community and religious organizations and can be found on Facebook, LinkedIn and Skype under the handle johnmac13; he blogs on Medium (https://medium.com/) and, along with Thom Hartmann, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, novelists John D. MacDonald and Ray Bradbury, was an early contributor to the ground-breaking Digital Deli website, which, three decades on, continues to serve as a solutions resource for digital creatives, systematic thinkers and technologists.

Yorktown, New York’s Poet Laureate as of 2017, John released his first collection, Cashing A Check, in 2008 (the title poem earning him third place in the 2009 Writer's Place National Poetry Contest), with the following year seeing the publication of The Inwood Book: Poems, Short Stories, & A Novel and New & Collected Poems: 100 Poems + 15 More (both Johnmac Press); besides Cashing, other Kindle-exclusive work includes 2009’s Writing In My Head and With A Chip On My Shoulder (a Chapbook) (also via Johnmac).   

Responsible for more than 1,500 news articles, columns, and academic papers, John is also a member of the American Academy of Poets, ACLU, NAACP, and the Freelancers Union, and has taught at NYU, The New School for Social Research, Westchester Community College, and Marist College, where he earned two Master’s degrees.

John is a native of the Inwood section of Manhattan Island and resides in Jefferson Valley, New York. Contact him directly on Twitter or at johnmac13@gmail.com.

Organized by Frank Chambers, Open Mic meets the second Monday of each month, beginning at 7:15, in the CD/DVD section of the Stamford Barnes & Noble bookstore.

Please come and listen to local poets, bring a favorite poem, read your own poems too.

Barnes & Noble Booksellers 
Stamford Town Center
100 Greyrock Place Suite H009
Stamford, CT 06901
203-323-1248