Poet/storyteller, teacher,
business consultant and multifarious cyberspace denizen, John F. McMullen (aka
"johnmac the bard") returns to the Stamford area this evening at
Curley's to share selections from his newest title, Live At The Freight House, his eighth book featuring material
read last February at the historic cafe of the title, located in Mahopic, New
York.
In 2009 "Cashing A Check," which won
third place in the Writer's
Place National Poetry Contest that year, became the title of the first
of six poetry collections, followed by A
Writing
In My Head (CreateSpace, 2009), offering ruminations on the
famous Hudson River Country Store, Guinan's (a favorite watering hole),
religion and other topics.
The
Inwood Book (johnmac Press),
an omnibus of poetry, short stories
and
Offering It Up, a novel—all situated in Manhattan's Inwood
section—appeared the following year.
A graduate of Iona College with
two Master's degrees from Marist College, John has taught at Monroe College
among several other institutions and was named Poet Laureate of Yorktown, New
York in 2017.
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As
John's busy and remarkably varied platform www.johnmac13.com
demonstrates, he has fulfilled for himself the potential of the personal
computer as a powerful social, informational and creative accelerant (scrolling
through the voluminous archive for his Internet radio show alone showcases
interviews with the likes of FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, angel
investor/cosmonaut Esther Dyson and cartoonist MG Lord), first heralded with
the publication of Microcomputer
Communications--A Window on the World (John Wiley & Sons),
co-authored with his wife Barbara back in 1984.
Serving both the consumer and
trade markets since then, John has contributed innumerable stories, articles
and columns to The Chicago Tribune, PC Magazine, Computer
Shopper, Lear’s, InfoWorld, Government Executive and
the National Review.
He
is a member of the Association for Computing, the American Civil Liberties
Union and the Freelancers Union and lives in Jefferson Valley, New York with
his wife (who frequently edits his books). You can find out more about John's
other collections and activities here,
as well via his Facebook fan page.
Serving both the consumer and
trade markets since then, John has contributed innumerable stories, articles
and columns to The Chicago Tribune, PC Magazine, Computer
Shopper, Lear’s, InfoWorld, Government Executive and
the National Review.
