Come join us for a fabulous evening of poetry with award winning slam poet, Danny Sherrard on Thursday, March 20 at 6 pm
Danny Sherrard is the founder of Island Verse Literary Collective, a nonprofit organization honoring the voices of the San Juans. He is the youngest person to have won the Individual National Poetry Slam in Austin in 2007 as well as the World Poetry Cup in Paris in 2008. Write Bloody published his first collection of poetry in 2009. Between 2008-2020 Sherrard toured and orchestrated poetry workshops across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his poetry has appeared in numerous publications across the United States and Europe. He is currently putting the finishing touches on his new rendering of theGilgamesh Epicand is collaborating in many forms of literary magic within the arts community of the San Juan archipelago.
About Danny Sherrard:
Through two decades of carefully crafted verse, Cast Your Eyes like Riverstones into the Exquisite Dark calls readers into a realm where beautiful verses bend and fracture like light through crystal. These poems are incantations that merge the seen and unseen worlds, kindling ancient myths into new flames. With language that burns bright as ritual fire and flows deep as ancestral memory, this collection transforms personal reflection into universal revelation. Each page pulses with raw emotion and ethereal imagery, inviting readers to cast their own hearts into its depths and emerge transformed. This poetry doesn’t just speak—it blazes, haunts, and heals.