Best Friend
Like every night she steps upon the porch To hear the clack, clack, clack across the floor, An anxious whine, tail thumping like a drum, And then the yelp when she…
Author · Poet · Technology founder
Clifford F. Boyle
Pushcart-nominated author and Harvard-educated tech founder (Shazzle, 3 patents) whose screenplay Night Landing was optioned by the Oscar-winning producer of Antonia’s Line.
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In brief
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Screenplay Night Landing optioned by an Academy Award–winning producer (Hans de Weers)
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Pushcart-nominated author who is also a patent-holding technology founder
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Harvard-educated literary voice with a real body of work — essays, poetry, fiction
The work
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Writing
The poetry collection, the novel, the short stories, and the long work still in progress.
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Essays
Essays and poetry, published here first and sent to subscribers of Navigation.
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Film
Night Landing, optioned by the producer of the Academy Award–winning Antonia’s Line.
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Technology
Shazzle, ShazzleChat, and three granted U.S. patents in privacy technology.
The writing came first and remains the center of it.
Recent essays
All essaysCLASS REUNION
She walks in sunshine, with shadows of friends Thrown by white painter pants and a whiter smile, Like sun-glint snow, a brilliant prospect So near to my heart, my…
Everlasting Life
There once was time that stood outside of time – No earth, no sky, no water, air, or land. Then came the Word, the voice of God sublime – Light through the…
How Might a Love Be Likened to a Rose
A pure pink passion plucked on Friday night, Soft petals brightened by her smile’s glow To open like my heart she set in flight? Is it Adam’s Curse that we must…