Fred Poole
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | writer/mentor |
| Location | Woodstock, NY, and NYC, New York, United States |
| Introduction | THE AQUA MUSTANG, my latest book, is appearing in serial blog form in http://theaquamustang.blogspot.com. With further scenes and stories in a new blog, http://insistentscenes.blogspot.com For my book AUTHENTIC WRITING: A Memoir on Creating Memoir, please go to http://AuthenticWriting.com, or to Amazon or Barnes & Noble….. I believe fine writing is art and can deal with darkness. Among my early works is my Vietnam-era novel, Where Dragons Dwell (Harper's Magazine Press). But now I find fiction trivializes real experience, and thus concentrate on memoir in my writing and in the Authentic Writing Workshops that I do with my wife Marta Szabo, author of The Guru Looked Good. |
| Interests | Singing, performing, writing real scenes and stories along with other writers, politics, being in nature, world history, dogs, cats, wild animals, liberation theology, the Roman Catholic church, Thomas Merton,Karl Rahner drawing, painting, the McCourt brothers, museums and galleries, Tuscany and Umbria,Southeast Asia, Africa, Quebec, Cuba,the Catskills, New England and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, canes,hats, human anatomy, Ireland, spiritual anthropology,Boston College, ocean travel, and a great deal more. |
| Favorite movies | Once, Small Change, The 400 Blows, Man on a Wire, the works of Michael Moore |
| Favorite music | Morning has Broken, Up in the Morning, Suzanne, the Ash Grove, all of Beethoven |
| Favorite books | THE GURU LOOKED GOOD by Marta Szabo,'TIS by Frank McCourt, SINGING MY HIM SONG by Malachy McCourt, A LONG STONE'S THROW by Alphie McCourt, JUDE THE OBSCURE by Thomas Hardy, FRANNY & ZOOEY by J.D. Salinger, AUTOBIOGRAPHY by John Stuart Mill, everything by Thomas Merton |