Can we please have a new Renaissance? I am so tired of the dark ages!
Can we please have a new Renaissance? I am so tired of the dark ages!
Gloria Muñoz to Feature at Jack Kerouac House of St. Pete!
Editor’s Note:
We have the tools to create a new Renaissance right at hand. We have the ability to communicate around the globe with the touch of a finger. Furthermore, we just have to apply this technology and data and voilà, a new civilization would be born. Because, I have to tell you, I am completely tired of these dark ages that we find ourselves in. Poets must lead the charge and get our society being social again. Just my 2 cents, ya know.
Let’s get on with the show! We gots lots to tell ya about y’all. Coming from the South Bronx, I just love sayin y’all.
Thomas Sayers Ellis: Paradise Opening Reception at the Florida Museum Of Photographic Art
Poetix friend, photographer and fellow poet will be exhibiting at FMoPA. I got a sneak peek at the exhibit and I have to tell you it is quite incredible and you should check it out. The opening reception of Thomas Sayers Ellis: Paradise ǀ Paradise Layered, is on June 20, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Backstory
During his tenure, Thomas created a visual story of Saint Petersburg and its inhabitants. This story is sometimes comical, sometimes dark. But most of all, it sheds an intriguing light on the mechanism of the Florida tourist industry, the people that keep the city running and the people the city attracts like moths to a flame. By using a mixture of black/white and color photography, digital as well as film, and accidental double exposures, Thomas put together an eclectic collection of images that constructs a multi-layered account of his year as SPMOP’s first Photo Laureate. An accompanying photo book with an extended collection of Thomas’s photographs and poems will be presented at the opening.
Gloria Muñoz to Feature at Jack Kerouac House of St. Pete!
St. Pete’s very own Poet Laureate will be featured at the Jack Kerouac House of St. Petersburg on Sunday, June 30th at 3pm. Get your tickets here.
Gloria is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of Your Biome Has Found You and Danzirly (University of Arizona Press, 2021), which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, a Las Musas Mentorship, St. Pete Arts Alliance's Muse Award, Creative Pinellas' Artist Grant, and attending the Tin House YA writers workshop. Through Moonlit Música, the company she cofounded, Muñoz writes and composes music for bilingual children’s programming in audio, film, and curriculum. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate.
Read Herring Reading featuring Phillipe Diederich, Larry Jaffe & Brianna Remus at the Corner Club in Tampa on June 19th @ 8p.m.
Read Herring is Tampa's premier lit-ertainment party where emerging voices meet professional writers of poetry and prose. The reading will take place at the Corner Club in Tampa on June 19th @ 8p.m. I will be reading along with two other wonderful poets: Phillipe Diederich and Brianna Remus. Look forward to seeing you there!
Florida Bards Anthology Release
The eagerly awaited Florida Bards Poetry Anthology will be officially released on Saturday, June 22nd at 7:30 PM (Door opens at 7:00) at the Courtyard by Marriott St. Petersburg Clearwater located at 3131 Executive Dr, Clearwater, FL 33762. Guests and audience may also attend.
To help with event space costs, we are asking for a $5 cover charge at the door. If you are interested in being a reader, please RSVP.
You can preorder your copies for pickup or for shipping.