Marc Scullin

Marc Scullin is a poet and novelist based in Pelham, New York. His writing spans long-form poetry, haiku, reflective prose, and fiction, moving between philosophical compression and sustained reflection. His work explores mortality, stillness, and absurdity through direct observation and lived experience.Across subjects and forms, he creates a world where tension and tenderness coexist, giving each piece room to take shape naturally. He works independently, shaping each idea into writing that remains faithful to its original inspiration.

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Shadows and Daffodils

Building on the grassroots momentum of Collected Poetry – Volume 1, Marc’s second collection, Shadows and Daffodils, is now available through major booksellers, continuing an expanding body of work that finds the extraordinary within everyday moments.

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Cover painting: Marc Scullin

I Bet They’re LovelyCompleted and preparing for publication
Target publication: Fall 2026I Bet They’re Lovely gathers haiku shaped by close attention to nature, human behavior, and the small interruptions that transform an ordinary moment. Marc Scullin approaches the form with reverence but not obedience, allowing mortality, spiritual curiosity, sharp humor, and everyday absurdity to share the same small frame. What emerges is a concentrated expression of his poetic voice—alert to what is overlooked, willing to find beauty beside decay, and always prepared to look deeper.

Cover painting: Marc Scullin

Why Can’t There Be Rainbows in the Dark?Poems completed; collection currently in curation
Planned for 2027Why Can’t There Be Rainbows in the Dark? carries forward the close observation, mortality, beauty, absurdity, and emotional honesty of Marc Scullin’s earlier collections. Across the volume, his sharp observational humor, sympathy for what is discarded, overlooked, or erased, and the friction between tenderness and irreverence come more fully into view. What emerges is the record of an ongoing poetic journey—one that continues to reveal what the world offers to those willing to pay attention and look twice.

Cover collage: Marc Scullin

Sad Girls: Graffiti Truck — Book 1Novel in progress
Publication date to be announcedSad Girls follows Swerve, a man displaced in time and stranded in a city he does not understand. When a young woman goes missing, he is hired to find her. His search draws him through a controlled world where the culture he remembers survives only in fragments. As he moves among the city’s various factions, whose paths intersect for shifting purposes, each encounter reveals another layer of how this world works—and suggests that the missing girl may be connected to the same lost culture he came from.

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Shadows and Daffodils: Collected Poetry — Volume 2Published poetry collection
Published July 27, 2026Shadows and Daffodils finds meaning in what is overlooked, discarded, or left behind. Moving through ordinary places where beauty and rot sit side by side, the collection brings mortality, stillness, grief, and absurdity into the same field of observation. Marc Scullin’s cohesive, image-driven voice shifts between tension and tenderness, direct experience and philosophical reflection, allowing humor to remain present even at the edges of loss. What emerges is a record of close attention—and an ongoing search for what remains after the moment has passed.

Collected Poetry — Volume 1Published poetry collection
Published April 9, 2026Collected Poetry — Volume 1 introduces Marc Scullin’s direct, image-driven voice through poems rooted in ordinary experience. Across the collection, humor and anger sit beside tenderness, mortality, and spiritual reflection, while attention remains fixed on what is most easily passed by. What emerges is an early record of a poet finding meaning in the everyday—and discovering how much the world reveals when it is observed without looking away.