O'Sullivan's Place: The Poetry of Joe Robert - Tapa blanda

Take a journey to that place of the memory, of recalling good times, times that were not so good, a place you would like to return to if only for a little while. That place is O'Sullivan's Place. Once there, you can explore, not only past memories, but current encounters with real people who face the daily grind of their jobs yet still perform out of dedication. Also explore some of the wonders and questions of nature and some of our most personable critters. And delve into the human experience of life's triumphs and follies as Joes Robert takes you there through his uncluttered verse and stimulating prose.

Joe Robert, whose real name is Joe Robert Lock, is a sixty-one-year-old retired schoolteacher who has taught special education in the central Florida school system for twenty-two years. Lock was born and raised in the Detroit, Michigan, area and graduated from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, in 1974 with a degree in English and education. He worked mostly in sales and retail management until he was thirty-eight years old and then moved to Florida to achieve his long-held goal of becoming a classroom teacher. Teaching jobs were scarce in Michigan in 1989, and he knew his chances of getting hired were better in Florida. He was offered a job teaching elementary developmentally delayed students. He took the job, became certified in special education, and he said he has never had any regrets. Lock has three children, Andrew, Vicki, and Mary; and two grandchildren, Cadence and Emma; and is engaged to another teacher, Anna Radosti.