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Michael J. Farrand

Michael J. Farrand was born October 19, 1959 in Oakland, California, and lived as a child in such faraway places as Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Moscow, U.S.S.R. After college he also lived in Italy. Educated at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, Mr. Farrand first turned his pen to plays and screenplays, and then to lyrics and poetry.

He is the author of REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY FOR THE MODERN ERA: a Proposed Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the inventor of Story Dynamics, and the compiler of the Magic Star of Dramatic Writing. Screenwriting guidance he offers in "How to Write a Screenplay", which may one day end up in book form, results from his own experiences writing screenplays, and five years as administrator of the Empire Screenplay Contest. He is available for script consulting. He also introduced the mandoletto to the mandolin line, and hopes one day to learn how to play it.

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The author has been published numerous times in newsprint as a journalist. His several government publications related to the petroleum industry have long since gone from print. Several hundred poems from his pen are published here at this website. A small handful of them were printed in a self-produced chapbook in Charlottesville in the year 2000. Additionally:

His Place quatrain "At the Bread and Puppet Show" was exhibited throughout April 2011 at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier, Vermont as part of the Poetry Alive! events in honor of National Poetry Month. Poems by other Vermont poets Robert Frost, Baron Wormser (former Poet Laureate of Maine), and David Budbill were also exhibited.
His sonnet "Though I May Rue the Day I Told the Truth" appears at Apocalyptic Hope.
Another sonnet "Mother, I'm Speaking to You from Your Womb" is published through Stand True, as is "Do They Tell You About the Suffering".
His narrative poem "The Man Who Gave All The Dreamers in Baseball Land Bigger Dreams To Dream" is published through Baseball Almanac (modified since publication).
"This Guy Doesn't Know What He's Doing" is published in AHA! POETRY.
"Had I But" was published in Issue Number 8 of The Real Eight View.
"She" was published in the August 2005 issue of Poetic Voices Magazine.
His short poem "The Lowly Fruit Fly" was published in the Autumn 2008 issue (#11) of the Our Community Place newsletter.
His beat poem "Christmas" was published in the December 2008 issue (#17) of The Beatnik Cowboy.
His lifestyle quatrain "English Three Fruit Marmalade" was selected for publication in the inaugural issue of Eat Your Words: A Journal of Food Literature (appearing August 1, 2009).

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