Undawnted's Ages Instrumental Album Available on YouTube

My new album, Ages, was inspired by the poems that were published and I wrote for the Poetry Treasures 5: Small Pleasures anthology. 

Ages is an instrumental medley. Each song has its own presence, style, and grace. Listen to these singles while studying or working to help you tune out distractions and focus on what is important.

Or, listen to relax and unwind from the day. 

Ages Album Playlist (YouTube)

For information about my original music, visit the Music tab and Ages album page.

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DL Mullan has been a musical wonder and performer for decades.

A teacher noticed her abilities on her dynamic, and technically perfect, first use of the violin at age ten during class. She was rushed into Competitive Orchestra the next school year. 

 

After switching schools, her junior high music teacher discerned her aptitude in class. As Ms. Mullan played the violin and the school only offered band and choir, she believed her musical calling would go unanswered. Fortunately, the band instructor loved the idea of having a string instrumentalist. DL Mullan was the first violinist invited into the group and seated in the flute section. She spent two years in band, which she became a magnet for other string-playing students, as well as succeeding to second chair. 

Her Arts Magnet high school was a different matter. A violin in a Marching Band was not a match made. Without any background in singing, Ms. Mullan entered the world of choir. During her time in Concert Choir, she taught herself the piano, some drums, and took guitar lessons to expand her aspirations. Upon developing her voice, she discovered that she was an operatic lyric soprano with at least eight octaves at her disposal. She sang in theater productions, graduations, and other activities from high school and throughout college.

DL Mullan received her music letter in high school. In addition, she has written music for competitions, competed in talent shows, won an award for her solo singing, as well as maintained her lyricist skills as an award-winning poet. With her classical training, as well as her grandfather's jazz pianist genes, both musical legacies will be reflected in her pieces.  

 

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Extra Extra! The Descent is a Horrorific Good Read

Genre poetry, especially The Descent's: darker breed of poetry, is often overlooked by poetry lovers. This Autumn Cider Seasonal Reads staple here on Undawnted is a great way to vibe with the change of seasons.

On Writing to be Read's Treasuring Poetry column by Robbie Cheadle, she not only delves into my Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, paranormal inspired chapbook, but she enjoyed it as well.

Treasuring Poetry, 2024: Introducing the poetry of DL Mullan and a review is available to read. In this interview, I discuss my inspiration and journey into writing poetry. The classics are a beautiful influence and help me ground my creative pieces. My interview also exhibits three poems from other chapbooks. Transcendence is in my upcoming Impetus. The Flower Within lives in Effloresce, which is being expanded for a future release. Weather and Asymptote reside in Phantastic.

I hope poetry lovers read my upcoming chapbooks as I re-release these poetry books from one platform onto another. This year, I plan on publishing at least two chapbooks, Eclipse being one of them. I cannot wait to share my lyrical visions with an expanded audience. 

My Long Form Poetry will be published in an upcoming collection, but most individual poems are available in my Special Editions Store.

Thanks again, Robbie Cheadle, for your kindness and review of my poetry. 

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Support Great Artists 

 

Purchase your copy from our fine retailers: 

books2read.com/TheDescentChapbook

 

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DL Mullan has been writing award-level poetry for thirty years. Recently, she has showcased her literary talents by self-publishing several collections of her poetry. She also writes novels, designs apparel, and creates digital art. Ms. Mullan‘s creative writing is available in digital and print collections, from academia to commercial anthologies.

As an independent publisher, she produces her own book cover designs and video presentations, as well as maintains her own websites. She is an award-winning digital artist and poet. 

Join her Undawntable Newsletter for everything Undawnted. Be sure to enroll in her Substack writing program, RhymeScribe, which focuses on the form and function of poetry. Become a YouTube subscriber for her Poetry Slam updates.

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Undawnted's Special Editions Now Boasts a Vault

Undawnted's Special Edition Books page has grown. 

As more poetry and short fiction are created, Undawnted will be producing creative writing collections for our readership. 

 

From our Seasonal Reads program to poetry and short fiction, these creative pieces are curated into assembled publications for anyone's growing library of literature. 

We have added:

• Vault 
• Celebrating a Decade of Long Form Poetry. 
• Visionary, Volume 1 
• Celebrating Scifi/Fantasy Short Fiction
•  Visionary, Volume 2
  
• Celebrating Scifi/Horror Short Fiction

We hope that all of them become your favorite! 

Team Undawnted 

A Novelist Idea Newsletter's Theme for 2023 is the Hint of the Divine

Did you miss last year's A Novelist Idea Newsletter debut? Then miss no more. Undawnted began a new cycle with the theme: Hint of the Divine. 

We are looking for archetypes in all the in between spaces. 

If you act now, and sign up for this free newsletter, you will begin on the ground floor of this exciting, intelligent, and creative experience. Not only will you be updated with the latest in Undawnted's news, DL Mullan's publications, and exclusive releases, parties, prizes, and book events, you will receive a thought-provoking, intuitive, and top shelf education in the imagination. 

Open your mind to a larger landscape. 

DL Mullan has been a creative leader in the writing community for two decades. Join A Novelist Idea Newsletter for the pure joy of community, and programs that expand the mind. Or, you could participate and earn a Certificate of Completion at year's end. 

Whatever road you choose, Undawnted will satisfy those inner creative cravings you long to satiate. 

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Have a great and wonderful day, 

Team Undawnted

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About Undawnted

Undawnted is the home of novelist, DL Mullan. Ms. Mullan has a varied and remarkable background, from her educational pursuits (Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning with Technology, also see About Undawnted), as well as learning from the best in novelization, science fiction, horror, fantasy, and scriptwriting (Communication Précis). From her award-winning poetry and scifi fantasy digital artwork to teaching honor's curriculum with her college's coordinator (Professor Emeritus), participating in panel discussions at conventions, or directing her community poetry group, she has the innovative vision, creative passion, and hands-on experience that lends itself to success. 

Check out her growing Curriculum Vitae on her Undawnteum site (updated regularly) for details on her extensive formal and self-procured education, real world experience, and application in the arts. 

Become a true Fearless Phile and join DL Mullan on the creative journey that is: Undawnted.

Join our community today!

 

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Baptizing the Dead, the Literary Lyrical Long Form Poem, is Published!

Undawnted, and our Fearless Philes, had a wonderful time at the Baptizing the Dead release party last night. You didn't get the invite? Well, you can receive one for our next event by signing up with A Novelist Idea Newsletter...

Subscribers always get the goodie bag! 

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Summary

What is this poem about? 

The Devil has come to town to baptize followers for the other team in order to steal their souls... do you know who your preacher is?

Even the Devil Can Quote Scripture

 

Critical Acclaim

What readers have to say about this poem?

"What happens when you give the Devil a run for his money!"

"Another great piece by our generation’s [Gen X] Genre Laureate."

"Ah such a talented woman I can only hope to be as good as you one day love your poems."

"Irreverent, but topical in our current cultural climate. Perfect."

 

Info Guide

Do you want to know more? Then visit Baptizing the Dead on Undawnted.  

 

Believe in Magic... Autumn Cider Seasonal Reads 

 

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DL Mullan is an award-winning poet. With poems in numerous publications, including academic and commercial anthologies, Ms. Mullan is becoming Generation X's Genre Poet Laureate.

Want to read some free selections? Venture over to her page on My Poetry Forum.

The creative imagination stands the test of time. 

Learn. Grown. Master... with Undawnted.

 

 

Additions and Updates to Our Poetry Sections

Undawnted has been doing some spring-cleaning, as it were, to our poetry line. 

We are in the process of adding chapbooks like Supernatural Archaeology, and some others whose titles are tentative, but soon to be released on this site. In the Long Form poetry section, we have some great ideas for each seasonal reads. We have begun the process with the release of our Long Form poem: Galactic Ride in March 2022, and the upcoming chapbook release of Eclipse in May 2022. More goodies will be uploaded soon to our Chapbook section. Our goal is to have a long-form poem and chapbook for every month of the year. 

After a large catalog of poetry has been published, then in November 2024, we will release: Oracle. This chapbook will celebrate 30 years of award- winning/level poetry from our own rhymer, DL Mullan.

She believes poetry is for everyone. Her poems are easy to read and digest. The meaning is what the reader brings to the words, but also Ms. Mullan conveys her own thoughts and feelings into the mix. 

In the coming weeks and months, you will see this section change with exciting and even more provocative writings. Ms. Mullan challenges herself on every level to bring her audience the best writing and culture of the age. From poetry, prose, and digital art, there is no comparison to her commitment to the tangible legacy she is creating before your very eyes.

You can have curated... or you can have creative. Undawnted- where the imagination is fearless. 

 

Have a great and wonderful day.

 

 

The End... Poems No Longer Available on My Poetry Forum, but a New Year of Authenticity Begins!

In the post: On My Poetry Forum Poems to be Retired for 2022, a list of eight poems that were ready for their time in a computer folder was announced. Now that time has come. These poems have been removed from public view:

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  Moon over Aphrodite
  
• 9.12.01
• Upon Reading Edgar Allan Poe
• Step on All of Us
• You
• Desert Mesquite
• Vanished  
• Eggnog Dreams

More poems will be offered in the coming year. Choose your favorites wisely, as they too will be weighed and measured at the end of 2022.

If you would like to read and hear one of DL Mullan's poems, then please don't miss: Asymptote, available now.

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Undawnted's YouTube Channel offers poetry shorts to full-fledged poetry feature films in our Poetry Slam section. This new playlist will give you more of the rhymes you crave.

Subscribe for more award-level poems written by DL Mullan.

 

 

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As an added bonus, DL Mullan will be on Sonoran Dawn Studios' Happy New Year 2022: Stayin' Alive Party on Facebook.

 

Begins at 10pm AZ Time

 

Have a great and safe New Year's Eve.

Poetry in Review on My Poetry Forum for an End of the Year Culling

I have 18 poetry selections on My Poetry Forum, which will now be available on Undawnted's YouTube Channel. 

At the end of the year, all poems will be removed to make way for our video shorts and feature films in the works.

But if you enjoyed a poem and feel that it is in jeopardy of being taken down, then you have the power to keep that poem in circulation. Go on to Undawnted's YouTube Channel, subscribe and then give a great review!

The more you, the audience, interact; the more I can give you of what you want: fearless creativity.

Have a great and wonderful day. 

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Undawnted's YouTube Channel offers poetry shorts to full-fledged poetry feature films in our Poetry Slam section. This new playlist will give you more of the rhymes you crave.

Subscribe for more award-level poems written by DL Mullan.

 

31 Days of Halloween, Breathe: A Darker Breed of Poetry

To continue our Halloween theme, My Poetry Forum is hosting some of my poems from the horror chapbook, The Descent: a darker breed of poetry.

This chapbook houses "a darker breed of poetry." Plus new poetry that has yet to be seen by the general public.

"As a genre poet myself, I have to tell you how much I enjoyed this."

"The poem [Breathe} is as scrumptious and sensual as it is dark and deep."

"This is first for me. I have never read genre poetry before. I love it. Hugely imaginative and utterly unique..." 

Breathe is the selection for this evening. I hope you enjoy this subtle but dark piece of creative writing. 

Please remember to leave me feedback in the form of a review. If you liked the poem a lot, then please nominate the poem. It helps in the rankings. 

Have a great and scary day!

Watch: Turquoise Chapbook Presentation

Want to learn about my chapbook, Turquoise? 

In this short video presentation, you will get a few snippets of poems and read through a couple from beginning to end.

Turquoise Chapbook Presentation

You can also read up on the chapbook here: Turquoise. 

The healing power of color comes the emotive, evocative, and provocative chapbook that will hit every note with ease and leave you wanting more.

 "Amazing."

"I love it. I can relate and "feel" the moment and the experience it brought on... thanks for sharing."

 *Features nominated poems: Imaginary Suicide and Loaner.

Turquoise, buy your copy on Sonoran Dawn's Poetry Spotlight via Lulu.

Winter Frost Seasonal Reads 2020 Begins

Cold nights sitting by the roaring fireplace with hot coc
oa in hand is what the chill of winter's frost brings us.

The holidays are being celebrated with parties. Carolers make their rounds through neighborhoods, People shop at the local businesses for gifts. Children have sugar plums dancing in their heads.

What to do on those long winter's nights? But read, of course! 

Here are some of my reads for your reading list:

Fiction
Novels  
Nocturnal Redemption: In the Eye of the Beholder
Professor Ryan Blackburn is about to discover a world beyond her own imagination where vampires, werewolves, and magical gypsy witches exist.

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Poetry Chapbooks 
Turquoise 
With everything that happens in this world, you're stronger than you know.

Long Form Poetry
Memoirs of a Psychotic Painting Elephant
You may want to think twice about drinking alcohol after this.
 

 Winter Reads and Workshops run December 1st to February 28th

 

Moving Away from Lulu and Other Fee-Based Platforms

I have been trying to publish my chapbooks and other stories, but fee based platforms have gotten their rules and polices in the way.

That is quite disconcerting. All I want to do is publish my poetry and novels. I didn't believe such actions warranted an IRS form and forced revenue edict. I am disabled. I am not going to make enough to pay taxes on for years.

I am not in the biz to make a landslide. I love to entertain. That's what I do in the creative writing field. I am too ill for book tours or anything else. It's to keep my mind busy while I am stuck most days in bed (22+ hours, most of that is zzzz).

I have loads of experience in various fields as well as a Masters degree in Teaching and Learning with Technology. My website is my stage and my classroom. Anyone who ventures here will receive a first rate creative writing, literature, mythology, and arts education.

So I find the demands of corporations and the IRS just a little comical to say the least. I will have to find a new way of communicating myself to my audience.

I'm taking suggestions.

Habitue did drop today. If you would like a copy, then let me know via my social media page on Facebook and Twitter where this article will be posted. It's a short chapbook with a handful of poems about habit forming behaviors.

Maybe make a donation of a few bucks to help me with my technology expenses? I do everything from scratch these days. So every penny is appreciated. I take Paypal. Maybe that will work...

See, I am still working out the rough patches. 

 

 

Being a writer should not take a corporate intervention or demands of the IRS, I should be allowed to be the adult I am. I file my taxes as appropriate. I can do that with a simple printout of what I made between two dates as already available via the Lulu software in my account settings.

I think it's time to rethink the writing business because it's no business of anyone's except my own.

If the IRS disagrees, then maybe it is time to abolish the IRS.

Have a great and wonderful day.

Undawnted is on Author Space

Enjoy the formal and/or structured poetry forms of less than 10 lines. 

Read cinquains, haikus, and everything in between. Undawnted on Author Space will highlight the short form poetry that DL Mullan workshops.

See you there!

 

Summer Time Reads: Effloresce, Poetry for the Season

Effloresce is a chapbook

To burst forth; bloom- everything in nature from flowers, fires, and ferocity. 

"The two first lines drew me in, ..I think this brings me to the ponderous moments while watching the magnificent sky..when you almost feel you are shifting along with the changes."

"I enjoy reading your work & find this a wonderful image spurring thought or is it a thought spurring image... A delightful senryu to please those ancient Japanese while pleasing modern interpreters of this form as well. "

 Read more about Effloresce here.

Buy Effloresce on Lulu today!

Eclipse: Cloaked by Totality Publication Date Moved to June 5

With everything going on: injury, illness, and quarantine, my chapbook Eclipse was sidelined until I reached a better and more energetic center. 

June 5, 2020 seems like the perfect publication date as that is a Full Moon with, you guessed it: an eclipse!

That is poetry. 

If you would like to read more about this upcoming chapbook, visit its dedicated page here on Undawnted, Eclipse: Cloaked by Totality. 

Have a great and wonderful day! 

My Poetry Forum Nominations for Imaginary Suicide

Forums are a great way to meet new people and gain insight into one's own writing. The provocative and evocative poem, Imaginary Suicide, was nominated twice on My Poetry Forum.

Thank you so very much.

This poem is being moved to Undawnted's YouTube Channel.

 

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Imaginary Suicide is one of the poems in the Chapbook: Turquoise. 

The healing power of color comes the emotive, evocative, and provocative chapbook that will hit every note with ease and leave you wanting more.

"Amazing."

"I love it. I can relate and "feel" the moment and the experience it brought on... thanks for sharing."

"That's f@ckin awesome!!! Wow... I love your work."

Get hooked on Turquoise today!  

It is available now for purchase on Lulu, see Turquoise for details. 

Have a great and wonderful day. 

 

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Undawnted's YouTube Channel offers poetry shorts to full-fledged poetry feature films in our Poetry Slam section. This new playlist will give you more of the rhymes you crave.

Subscribe for more award-level poems written by DL Mullan.

 

 

My Poetry Forum Nomination for Loaner

Forums are a great way to meet new people and gain insight into one's own writing. The lyrical poem: Loaner was nominated on My Poetry Forum.

Thank you so very much. 

If you would like to read the poem for yourself and leave a review, then please head on over to My Poetry Forum. 

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Loaner is one of the poems in the Chapbook: Turquoise. 

The healing power of color comes the emotive, evocative, and provocative chapbook that will hit every note with ease and leave you wanting more.

"Amazing."

"I love it. I can relate and "feel" the moment and the experience it brought on... thanks for sharing."

"That's f@ckin awesome!!! Wow... I love your work."

Get hooked on Turquoise today!  

It is available now for purchase on Lulu, see Turquoise for details. 

Have a great and wonderful day. 

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Undawnted's YouTube Channel offers poetry shorts to full-fledged poetry feature films in our Poetry Slam section. This new playlist will give you more of the rhymes you crave.

Subscribe for more award-level poems written by DL Mullan.

 

 
 

Submissions in the Round

Last year I did not submit as many poems to third party sites as I usually do. 

Read Earth Changes II

My 2020 goal for submissions was to be more active. I have great poetry and I would like readers to experience my brand of rhyme, free verse, and metaphor. I have been writing for decades, with many positive reviews and critical acclaim. 

This seasonal cycle, I would like to expand my audience who may think that poetry is not for them. Then, you have not read my poetry. I write scientific, science fiction, imaginative, and emotive based poems that are not difficult to understand, but will leave an indelible mark on the reader.

I am publishing a few established poems that I have placed in my chapbooks on a few forums online. So if you would like to read some of my poems and leave a review, then please subscribe to Undawnted's YouTube Channel.

I also write poetry for a commission. 

Have a great and wonderful day.

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Undawnted's YouTube Channel offers poetry shorts to full-fledged poetry feature films in our Poetry Slam section. This new playlist will give you more of the rhymes you crave.

Subscribe for more award-level poems written by DL Mullan.

Turquoise: the Chapbook Release Party December 31st!

Join Undawnted in celebrating her Turquoise chapbook release!

Party in style: 

December 31, 2019 as part of Sonoran Dawn's New Year's Eve celebrations from 1pm to 6pm, sign up to celebrate your art, poetry, or writings...

Turquoise Chapbook Release Party 

See you there!

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About DL Mullan

The award-winning artist and poet, DL Mullan is a true Renaissance woman. From the ashes of a disabling illness, Ms. Mullan rose and metamorphosed into a beautiful creative Phoenix. Her reach is international through political discourse, social commentary, creative nonfiction, imaginative poetry, abstract fine art, book cover designs, online events, writer's workshops, and researched / investigative journalism just to name a few of her indelible influences even beyond the confines of social media. She challenges the status quo. She questions the absurd. She sees the trends and waits for history to catch up to her discernment.

She has become Undawnted... Undawnted is where the imagination is unpredictable, insatiable, and undeniably... unleashed.

 

The Descent is Featured in Nocturnal Redemption

I like to mix reality and genres together in my fiction writing, but this time, I made the name of my horror chapbook into a seedy bar, The Descent:

"Ryan exhaled what was and readied herself for what was meant to be. Solitary in the night, she stood outside another seedy establishment but this time the destination was for her personal research. With a deep inhalation of courage, Ryan entered the dive bar.

The Descent was another local hang out for the fringe of society. The customers wore black leather, multicolored hair, large tattoos, and abundant piercings. She often felt underdressed in her jean pants and jacket..."

If you are into the gritter side of poetry, please check out my chapbook, The Descent: a darker breed of poetry.

Nocturnal Redemption: In the Eye of the Beholder is available on Lulu now.

Have a great and wonderful day!