Sun-Times Sports Columnist Rick Telander Is Now A Published Poet

Sports writer Rick Telander started writing poetry when he was hospitalized with a serious illness and thought about what kids who were in his situation might be going through . Reset talks with Telander about seeing his longtime side project come to fruition with the publication of Sweet Dreams: Poems and Paintings for the Child Abed . If you liked this conversation, check out our full catalog of interviews with Chicago artists and newsmakers at wbez.org/reset .