Hello, I’m Henry E. Powderly II, a writer and musician currently living on Long Island who’s trying to balance a profession I enjoy as an Internet producer and editor with my goals as an artist.

Professionally, I’m a journalist, Web editor and site manager for Long Island Business News. If you’d like to connect with me professionally, click here to view my LinkedIn profile. I try to keep my resume updated.

I have written two novels which I hope to one day publish, as well as many poems and stories. I am currently working on a chapbook of nature poetry, a series of short fiction pieces inspired by Harvard Sentences, and a collection of longer stories. Some of my favorite writers are Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Nikos Kazantzakis, Haruki Murakami, Jack Kerouac, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg and J.D. Salinger. I studied creative writing at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

I am also a saxophonist, pianist and composer, though saxophone and jazz have been my main focuses in the past these days I focus on piano improvisations and compositions. I have studied at Manhattan School of Music and The New School but never finished a degree because I moved upstate to study writing a SUNY New Paltz. I have played numerous gigs in New York and in the Ulster/Dutchess and Orange County areas. I am a good pianist, though I usually use that instrument to compose and improvise rather than play professionally. That means I can’t play Rachmaninoff (and most Chopin). My favorite musicians/composers are John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Dmitri Shostakovitch, Erik Satie, Charles Mingus and Bill Evans.

This blog will showcase a lot of my art, which includes one of my newer loves: photography. I’ll post stories and poems, I’ll share excerpts of my novels and chronicle my process of editing them, and I’ll also post spontaneous compositions often inspired by events or photos or prompts.

I’ll also feature wine reviews.

If you would like to connect with me on Facebook, click here.

I also keep a pretty active Twitter profile. If you would like to follow along, click here.

Any questions should be sent to henry(dot)powderly(at)gmail.com.

Professional experience

For nearly four years I’ve worked at Long Island Business News, starting out as an editorial assistant and moving up to Web editor. Throughout that time I’ve done a lot of writing. I’ve published dozens of breaking news briefs, a few feature articles, and nearly 2,000 blog posts. For a while, I was the main writer for LIBN’s general business blog, LI Biz Blog, but just this year LIBN shut down that blog in order to focus on a more niche approach. Now I am the sole author of The Technofile, a blog about Long Island’s tech, energy and green scene.

I also spent some time this past year writing about arts and Long Island wines for LIBN’s LI Living blog. Unfortunately, that blog was eventually shuttered to focus on core news topics like tech.

Here are some examples of my stories, reviews and blog work. A lot of my coverage deals with dueling telcos Cablevision and Verizon.

Most of those posts, however, can’t be accessed unless you subscribe to LIBN.

The Technofile

To visit the blog, click here. Below I’ll post a few of my more detailed posts.

• Speedtest: Like surfing a tsunami
• Cablevision puts up a fight against FiOS
• MiFi makes its Wi-Fi everywhere
• Motorola says hospitality biz wants mobile
• Putting Audiovox earnings in perspective
• LI Index adds more data to its map

Arts/wine

• Recession wines that support LI
• Castello di Borghese’s pinot jewel
• Fado makes the longing sublime
• Bedell opens up his wine cellar
• One cask, two cask, three cask, more
• Lost in Wine Country: Paumanok Vineyards

News stories

• Paterson backs Lighthouse plan
• In war for LI, Verizon hitting Cablevision from all angles
• Verizon to launch local news station
• Chrysler to close four LI dealers
• A classic success story
• Cents and sensibility

Connect with me professionally at my LinkedIN profile.