San Luis Obispo County's Connection to Arts and Culture
THEY GATHERED IN THE BIOLUMINESCENCE
OF THE FIREFLIES UNTIL THEY TOO
BECAME THE SUMMER NIGHT SKY
—from “Bioluminescence” by Diana Sudyka
Everything comingling as if the air we breathe
The earth we stand on the water bodies
We share on this blue planet spinning around
And around the sun and the sun spinning
In our solar system in the Milky Way
The Milky Way spinning in the Universe expanding
Light and dark becoming the building blocks of
This expansion Now and Forever world without end
Kevin Patrick Sullivan, a Poet Laureate Emeritus of San Luis Obispo, is the co-founder/curator of the annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival since 1984. His books include First Sight, The Space Between Things, UNIMPAIRED, and a number of chapbooks. His poems are in Solo, Hummingbird, Askew, Lummox, Miramar, and Spillway among other journals and anthologies. He co-founded and for 35 years ran Corners of the Mouth at Linnaea’s Café, a monthly event featuring poets and open readings. He is co-editor of Corners of the Mouth: A Celebration of Thirty Years at the Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival.