No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Male
35 years old
New Orleans, Louisiana
United States
Pat Benatar, Cyndi Lauper, Evanescence, Billy Joel, Metallica, Lionel Richie, Elvis, Richard Marx, Godsmack, Public Enemy, Johnny Cash, Prince, Tchaikovsky, Kenny Rogers, The Cure, Patsy Cline, Madonna, Marvin Gaye, Tone-Loc, Frank Sinatra, Simon & Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, White Zombie, Judy Garland, Phil Collins, Linda Eder, Bon Jovi, Young MC, Kittie, Mozart, Kool & the Gang, Poison, Too Short, Willie Nelson, Switchblade Symphony, Run DMC, Strauss, Aerosmith, Billy Idol, Bingo, Soul Rebels, Trombone Shorty, Kermit Ruffins, Van Halen, Natalie Merchant, Sade, Guns N' Roses, Louis Armstrong, anything from the 80's.(Broadway)Jekyll & Hyde, Annie Get Your Gun, Cats, Titanic, Rent, Cabaret, Hedwig
Movies
The Shining, Glory, Rudy, Risky Business, Casablanca, Glengarry Glen Ross, Buffalo 66, Poltergeist, Moulin Rouge, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Mr. Mom, Carlito's Way, Sylvia, Citizen Kane, Cinderella Man, The People vs. Larry Flint, Conrack, A Perfect Murder, Wall Street, The Notebook, Trading Places, Lost Boys, Rocky, The Vanishing, Hamburger Hill, Mr. Holland's Opus, 8mm, Species, A Streetcar Named Desire, Blade Runner, Always, American Beauty, Kalifornia, The Others, Man in the Attic, The Miracle Worker, American Splendor, Platoon, St. Elmo's Fire, The Cell, Scarface, Sixteen Candles, Dead Calm, The Outlaw Josey Wales, A Bronx Tale, Private Parts, Full Metal Jacket, Amadeus, A Few Good Men, Pollock, Taxi Driver, Eyes Wide Shut, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Singin' in the Rain, Falling Down, 8 Mile, Play Misty for Me, Harold and Maude, Teen Wolf, Pulp Fiction, Malice, American History X, Jaws, Star Wars, Braveheart, Urban Cowboy, Pale Rider, Stand By Me, The Big Kahuna, The Hunt for Red October, The Aviator, Disclosure, The Silence of the Lambs, The Abyss, Misery, White Men Can't Jump, Death of a Salesman, Top Gun, In America, A Beautiful Mind, The Karate Kid, The Whole Wide World.
I am an actor as well and have appeared on the big screen in Big Momma's House 2, Love Song For Bobby Long, Skeleton Key, and Just My Luck and on televison in Disney's Stuck in the Suburbs and a couple Lifetime and CBS movies
Television
Night Court, Love Connection, Little House on the Prarie, The Shield, Cheers, Blind Date, Mister Roger's Neighborhood, Family Guy, Good Times, Becker, Three's Company, The Soup, animated and claymation Christmas specials, stand-up comedy, Sanford and Son, The Crocodile Hunter, Twilight Zone, The Munsters, SNL, trashy Lifetime TV movies, Classic Sesame Street, programs on candy factories
Books
Let's Go With Authors Instead: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Pablo Neruda, Violet Blue, Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams, Langston Hughes, Charles Bukowski, Sharon Olds, Flannery O' Conner, William Inge, William Shakespeare, Woody Allen, Mary Rowlandson, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Miller, Stephen Crane, Kelly Clark Baugher, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Samuel Clemens, Hamlin Garland, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes, Pat Ingoldsby, Ernest Hemingway
Heroes
U.S. Coast Guard, Sylvia Plath, Martin Luther King Jr., Anne Sullivan, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, Sir Francis Bacon, The Wright Brothers, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, Napoleon Bonaparte, Plato, Edgar Degas, John Ritter, Eddie Murphy, Jonas Salk, Leonardo da Vinci, Dolly Parton, Sir Isaac Newton, Mister Rogers, and Marilyn Monroe
I am Matthew Nolan, a New Orleans author excited about meeting people who love literature and believe in the rebirth of one of the greatest, most unique cities in the world--New Orleans, baby!
My first book Crumpled Paper Dolls: A New Orleans Poet made it big a month before Hurricane Katrina. I am now busy working on my second book and rebuilding my community.
You will find my site a ton of fun! Snoop around to read book excerpts, hear me reading my poetry, see me in a movie trailer for a feature-length film documentary on contemporary American poets, and listen to a BBC radio interview.
I love meeting new people, local and abroad.
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Available online and in fine bookstores
Who I'd like to meet: anyone and everyone! I especially love hearing from my readers. Feel free to send me a comment, message, or friend request.
Hey, man! Yeah, I won it in an annual poetry contest put on by Hill College. The most money I ever made for a single poem. I'm just trying to keep up with you, brother.
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