Shannon Sullivan

Shannon Sullivan is known for the percussive power of her interdisciplinary poetic performances. 2022 she was nominated for the European-wide poetry network Versopolis. Her poetry confronts the dark spaces of the personal and collective psyches with an intent on transformation. With a keen eye, she penetrates the interrelatedness of microcosm and macrocosm. The images in her work range from deeply personal to global as she careens through an almost dizzying kaleidoscope of emotional landscapes.

Interweaving music and poetry is a passion of Sullivan’s. Sound and rhythm provide the heartbeat which propels the listener towards metamorphosis. Her work has been shown in numerous festivals in Europe and beyond; her poems have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Armenian, Slovak, Dutch, and Italian. “THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN F. & F.”, a collaboration with the musicians Ali Hasan and Simon Schmidt, has now been recorded as her first full-length album.