Today I decided to google my good friend from the Ithaca College days, Michael Loughran (above pic was an image search result).  He is an excellent poet who lives & teaches in Philadelphia.  He got his MFA at the University of Florida.  He grew up in New Hope, PA.  He used to play high school basketball.  We had a lot of fun adventures in college.  He is a smart, great poet & thinkers.  Here are two links to some of his poems:

• http://www.readab.com/mloughran.html
• http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue10/Loughran.htm

Here is a link to Michael reading some of his poetry live at the New York Public Library:

• http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/geronimo-madrid-michael-loughran-and-barbara-wasserman

Here is a page from “Rate My Professor” where students can rate their professors.  They call Mike “Mr. L” and overall, I think he got a pretty good rating (you can even rate “hotness”):

• http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=834315

Here is a link about Mike doing a reading at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and there is a photo of Mike’s face:

• http://eventful.com/events/monday-poets-michael-loughran-and-lisa-sewell-/E0-001-025639265-5

And finally, here is a web page about a foundation for someone named Michael C. Loughran who, I think, was a fire fighter and who is no longer alive and he is not my friend Michael Loughran the poet, but his webpage has a song playing if you visit it:

• http://www.billykayser.com/mikeloughran/mikeloughran.html

6:15 pm  •  28 February 2010