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Reading By Suffolk County Poet Laureate At Dowling College
Daniel Thomas Moran, Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York, will read from his works on Monday, November 7 at 7:00 p.m. in the Hunt Room of Fortunoff Hall at Dowling College's Rudolph Campus in Oakdale.
The event, sponsored by Dowling College's chapter of Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, is free and open to the public.
Daniel Thomas Moran is the author of six volumes of poetry, the most recent of which, "From HiLo To Willow Pond", was published by Street Press in 2002. He has read widely throughout New York City and Long Island and has done readings in Ireland, Italy and Austria. He has had some 125 poems published in such prestigious journals as Confrontation, Nassau Review, Oxford, National Forum, Commonweal, Parnassus, Sulfur River, Pedestal, Rattapallax, LUNGFULL, Poetry Salzburg Review, Iconoclast, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Art Times, Home Planet News and The Norton Critical Anthology on Darwin.
From 1997-2005 Moran served as Vice President of The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in West Hills, New York, where he instituted The Long Island School of Poetry Reading Series and has been Literary Correspondent to Long Island Public Radio, where he hosted The Long Island Radio Magazine. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize on three occasions. In 2005 he was appointed Poet Laureate by The Legislature of Suffolk County, New York. He has been listed in Who¹s Who in America and The International Who¹s Who in Poetry. His next collection, "Farnan¹s Well" will be published by The University of Salzburg in Austria in 2006. He is a practicing Doctor of Dentistry on Shelter Island, where he lives with his wife Karen.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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