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I'm a novelist, playwright, and poet in Louisville Kentucky.

About Me:

I'm a novelist, poet and playwright who, when not busy shucking the mind for literature, is either reading or riding my way-too-cool Electra Super Deluxe retro 3-speed all over town. As well as my video readings here at YouTube, my online Poorfield Book presence can be found at poorfieldbooks.com where there is a bookstore and a reading room with short stories and an excerpt from my latest novel.

Hometown:

Louisville

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United States

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I am the founder and owner of The Poorfield Book Co. I make and sell handmade hardwood books of my original writing with exotic wood inlay, router work and leather binding. These one-of-a-kind books are available at poorfieldbooks.com

Interests:

reading, writing, movies, music, language, leisurely bike rides accompanied by sundry music selections, cool hats, cooking, handmade books

Movies:

The five essential films: Unforgiven, Nights of Cabiria, 12 Angry Men, Blade Runner, M Honorable mention: Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Andrei Rublev, Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors, The Breakfast Club, TRON, Serenity, Lawrence of Arabia, Touch of Evil, La Strada, Rashomon, No Country for Old Men, Lord of the Rings, many Buster Keaton silent films

Music:

Bob Dylan, Charlie Parker, Chick Corea, Uncle Tupelo/ Wilco, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Chubby Carrier, Rosie Ledet, Beau Jocque, Clifton Chenier, Betty Mabry Davis, Funkadelic, The Wilders, Ralph Stanley, Del McCoury, The Beastie Boys, Weezer, Freakwater, My Morning Jacket, Gomez, Charles Mingus

Books:

Moby Dick...................... and then: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The God of Small Things, Leaves of Grass, Anna Karenin, The Great Gatsby, L'Assommoir, A Confederacy of Dunces, Andrew Henry's Meadow, Lord of the Rings, The Earthsea Trilogy, Frankenstein, all things Poe, all things Sherlock Holmes, Jane Eyre, Suttree, Deliverance, all things Wallace Stevens, all things Pablo Neruda, Shebly Foote's Civil War trilogy, Siddhartha, Jesus' Son, all things Borges, and Catch-22 among others.

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	agreatkentuckywriter uploaded a new video (1 week ago) 5 recent poems commencing an exciting new direction in my... I read 5 poems which, looking closely at their structure and language, seem to mark a new direction with particulars of my poetic voice. They are T... more

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	agreatkentuckywriter uploaded a new video (2 months ago) New Poem: A Sigh of Winter This poem stares head-on at the great question of almost any human life.

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	agreatkentuckywriter uploaded a new video (5 months ago) Consider the Moth A new poem, Consider the Moth, that puts an eye to the miracle of life even in its most simplistic form. As always, the poem's theme is in a dance ... more