Dan "Sully" Sullivan • Poet • Educator
It’s National Poetry Day (in the UK) and to celebrate, I’m posting a poem from my book, The Blue Line Home. If you haven’t ordered your copy yet, today might be a good day! Tired of Looking for Signs like These I face Lake Michigan on a bridge, water flat as vowels on the busy… Continue Reading
Each year, Write Bloody Publishing holds an open competition. Hundreds of people submit three poems in hopes of becoming one of about 25 finalists. Those 25 then submit their full manuscripts in hopes of being one of about 4 to 12 people who will win a publishing contract with Write Bloody. This year, I happen… Continue Reading
Last week, as writers tend to do, I hit a bit of writer’s block. To force myself to write something, I challenged myself to a deadline. I posted a Facebook status that stated I would write a haiku for each of the first 10 people to “like” the post. I liked this exercise. Maybe I’ll… Continue Reading
National Youth Poet Laureate, Oak Park River Forest High School Slam Team member, and Louder Than a Bomb participant Natalie Richardson performs her poem The Things My Mother Craved live at the Urban Sandbox on Friday October 12th, 2012. To find out more about the Urban Sandbox check out www.Facebook.com/UrbanSandbox. Continue Reading
Travis Nichols has humbly put together a really wonderful comprehensive list of must-read Black History Month Poems for the Huffington Post. Please check it out here: Great Poems for Black History Month. Some of my personal favorites from the list are “Unholy Women” by Chris Abani, “Flounder” by Natasha Trethewey, and “Gwendolyn Brooks” by one… Continue Reading
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