Professor of English and Film / Poet laureate of Santa Cruz County
Cabrillo Community College
Talks covered by this speaker
Translating Poetry with David Sullivan
Categories covered by David Allen
About this Speaker
David Allen Sullivan is poet laureate of Santa Cruz County, California. His books include Strong-Armed Angels, Every Seed of the Pomegranate, Bombs Have Not Breakfasted Yet (a book co-translated with Dr. Abbas Kadhim from the Arabic of Iraqi Adnan Al-Sayegh), Black Ice, and Seed Shell Ash, about the year he spent as a Fulbright lecturer in China with his family. Take Wing won the Mary Ballard Chapbook poetry prize. Black Butterflies Over Baghdad, is coming out from the Word Works and includes co-translations of 9 Iraqi poets. Nightjars—a long narrative poem about the friendship between an Iraqi interpreter and a US soldier—is searching for a home, as is The Painted Word, an anthology of poems about the paintings of Bosch and Bruegel he edited with his recently deceased art- historian mother, and Tattoo the Torah on My Eyelids, which he co-translated with the author. He teaches at Cabrillo College, where he edits the Porter Gulch Review with his students and lives in Santa Cruz with his family.