Poetry: Three Ekphrastic Poems
Kevin Patrick Sullivan has written these poems to pieces in the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Let the Light Shine after a photograph by James Marx This…
Poetry: Bird-Voyeur
At the rookery, cormorants converse, a cacophony of baby-birds including egrets and herons calling for fish, more fish, more fish. They return yearly to nest over, under, and by each…
Poetry: A Teacher’s Nightmare
The other night I had a dream, strange and disturbing. I was in a class, literature maybe; the unseen teacher shared a text with us, told us to go home…
Poetry: Full Moon Over Elfin Forest
The opportunity for new insight can so easily pass us by— that potential opening to life lost. With this in mind, I pull on long johns, then sweatpants, turtleneck layered…
Poetry: Subtle Seasons
A scrap of paper tucked in a drawer reads “seasons are subtle on the Central Coast.” I wrote that note to myself several years ago. It was mostly true, and…
Poetry: Two by Kevin Patrick Sullivan
Your Gift There are images maybe traces of tenderness a quiet breathing this shared breath waking next to you The Bridge Come from under the sun Leap into the…
The Poet of Valencia Peak
The view from Valencia Peak The mountains are calling, and I must go.” ~ John Muir The mountains have been calling Los Osos poet Bob Kamm for as long as…
Poetry: Homeless
She was young, maybe in her twenties, a pretty face, asleep and cocooned in a blanket in the space between the concrete wall of the shopping cart corral and the…
Poetry: Sea Blossoms
My mother has long wavy green hair she slaps at my ankles my thighs she wants to break over my head knock me down in the surf give me a…
CAC Individual Artists Fellowships Available
The deadline to apply was May 5, 2023. Artists and cultural practitioners living and working in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Kern, or Ventura counties can now apply for California…