Francis Poole lived in Morocco for some years in the 1980s, where he taught at the American School of Tangier and became friends with Paul Bowles. He has also lived and taught English in Portugal. He lives in Delaware and edits Blades Ze Magazene.

His publications include, Lisbon: Poor Man’s Paris (Exquisite Corpse), Hotel Nassin (New Feral Press), The Muslim and the Christian (New Feral Press), and Everybody Comes to Dean’s: Dean’s Bar, Tangier. His poetry has appeared in New York Quarterly, Poetry East, Rolling Stone, Southern Poetry Review, and Das Ist Alles: Charles Bukowski Recollected. A collection of his poems, Snakeskin Raincoat, was published by Poporo Press.

Poole’s most recent book is the novel Ultrazone, set in Tangier and co-written with Mark Terrill, with whom he has also published two two collaborative chapbooks of poetry, The Spleen of Madrid and A Pair of Darts (Feral Press).

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