Darren sardelli biography

He grew up with no interest in reading or writing — and certainly not poetry, which thought was strictly for girls.

Today, Darren Sardelli is enjoying a career built on writing children’s poetry.

To date, the Long Beach bard has penned nearly 1,000 poems, 35 of which are published in 12 books and six textbooks from the United States to Israel to Germany.

Sardelli’s success has led him to visit some 60 regional elementary and middle schools each year to teach kids how to write poetry and offer some motivational words.

At 33, the athletic Sardelli, a life-long hockey player, sees himself as making poetry cool to kids, shattering images of poets as old men with long beards, and perhaps convincing some boys that poetry has its masculine side.

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