Poet Laureate -- Town of Yorktown, NY Role of the Yorktown Poet Laureate
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Poet Laureate, Town of Yorktown BIO
John F. McMullen
johnmac13@gmail.com 914 245-1894
Iona College -- BA (English Literature)
Marist College -- MSCS (Information Systems) & MPA (Criminal Justice)
Member – Academy of American Poets; Association for Computing; Hudson Valley Writers Center (“HVWC”); Poets & Writers, Mahopac Poetry Workshop; Mahopac Writers Group; Yorktown Poetry Workshop
Publications – I have 6 published books of poetry (one 110-poem collection and four smaller “chap books”); 2 other books; and over 2,500 magazine, newspaper, and news service columns, articles, & news stories.
Media – I host a weekly radio show on the Internet (over 200 episodes to date – links to recordings of all shows – www.johnmac13.com), and publish both a free daily newspaper (a curation of news stories and columns from around the country and the world) and a daily newsletter (a 10-story subset of the newspaper).
Educator – I was a full-time professor at Monroe College for 10 years and am currently an adjunct at Westchester Community College and an occasional volunteer professor at Marist College’s “Center for Lifetime Study”. Over the years, I have been an adjunct at NYU, The New School For Social Research, Marist College, and Purchase College.
Personal – My wife, Barbara McMullen, and I are 38-year residents of Yorktown (Jefferson Valley) and I am a member of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Mohegan Lake.
John F. McMullen
johnmac13@gmail.com 914 245-1894
Iona College -- BA (English Literature)
Marist College -- MSCS (Information Systems) & MPA (Criminal Justice)
Member – Academy of American Poets; Association for Computing; Hudson Valley Writers Center (“HVWC”); Poets & Writers, Mahopac Poetry Workshop; Mahopac Writers Group; Yorktown Poetry Workshop
Publications – I have 6 published books of poetry (one 110-poem collection and four smaller “chap books”); 2 other books; and over 2,500 magazine, newspaper, and news service columns, articles, & news stories.
Media – I host a weekly radio show on the Internet (over 200 episodes to date – links to recordings of all shows – www.johnmac13.com), and publish both a free daily newspaper (a curation of news stories and columns from around the country and the world) and a daily newsletter (a 10-story subset of the newspaper).
Educator – I was a full-time professor at Monroe College for 10 years and am currently an adjunct at Westchester Community College and an occasional volunteer professor at Marist College’s “Center for Lifetime Study”. Over the years, I have been an adjunct at NYU, The New School For Social Research, Marist College, and Purchase College.
Personal – My wife, Barbara McMullen, and I are 38-year residents of Yorktown (Jefferson Valley) and I am a member of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Mohegan Lake.