Ron Boyer

• Gender: Male
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: Writer, editor, film critic and filmmaker
• Location: Santa Barbara : California : United States

About Me

I'm an award-winning poet and author of short stories. My creative passions flow in the direction of creating poetry, fiction and screenplays for indie and feature films. I also like to dabble in essays and non-fiction, especially in the area of archetypal psychology and mythology. My style is literary, but I enjoy working in all sorts of genres. I will be using this blog exclusively to post my poetry. This will begin with a recently completed collection of early love poems to be published as a chapbook entitled "The Sea, The Sea (Poems of Love, Longing and Loss)". This will be followed by other poems to be published in future chapbook and book collections. For other writings you can refer to my other blog here, "Musings of a Wandering Writer", or Google me under "Ron Boyer" or "R. L. Boyer" and see what comes up. For more information about me feel free to look me up at www.myspace.com/rlboyer.

Interests

• My primary interests lie with the arts in general. For more see myspace.com/rlboyer.

Favorite Movies

• This past year
• the best films I saw are listed above
• more or less. There are a few others that deserve to be on the list: "Babel"
• "Children of Men" and "The Queen" spring to mind. For more see myspace.com/rlboyer.

Favorite Music

• I love rock 'n roll. All-time favorites are exceptional singer-songwriters like: Joni Mitchell Leonard Cohen Bob Dylan Van Morrison John Lennon Loreena McKennitt Bruce Springsteen For more listen to my Playlist favorites on myspace.com/rlboyer.

Favorite Books

• I love great literature
• so the best are the great dead writers of times past. Shakespeare is incomparable
• and towers above all comers. I love the French
• and rank Flaubert as the greatest literary stylist of all. I also love the Russians
• and Chekhov would rank a close 2nd to Flaubert as a stylist. The beauty of their prose is amazing. Chekhov--and indeed all the great Russian writers--are much deeper than the French
• being also great psychologists
• Dostoevsky at the fore--but also Gogol
• Tolstoy
• Lermontov
• et al. They have so much soul! I love a lot of non-fiction writers
• too many to mention here. I'll read anything by Carl Jung or Joseph Campbell and other Jungians like Marie Louise von Franz. I also love historians like Lewis Mumfor
• Ted Roszak and William Irwin Thompson. Northrop Frye (Fables of Identity
• Fearful Symmetry) and Norman O. Brown (Life Against Death
• Love's Body) and Ernest Becker (Escape from Evil
• Denial of Death) are favorites. For more see myspace.com/rlboyer.

My Blogs	Team Members
The Poetry of R. L. Boyer
Musings of a Wandering Writer