Join us for a night of poetry with visiting poet, Terese Svoboda, and local poet, Carolina Hospital!

About the poets:

A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is the author of 19 books, including eight books of poetry. Forthcoming from Anhinga is Theatrix in 2021. Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship (Eyewear) was published in 2016. Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet came out in paper in 2018, and Great American Desert, a book of stories, appeared in 2019. "Terese Svoboda is one of those writers you would be tempted to read regardless of the setting or the period or the plot or even the genre.”—Bloomsbury Review.

Carolina Hospital is a poet, novelist, editor, and professor at Miami Dade College, and the recipient of three Endowed Teaching Chairs. Her books include the poetry collection Key West Nights and Other Aftershocks (Anhinga); The Child of Exile: A Poetry Memoir (Arte Público); the novel A Little Love, under the pen name C. C. Medina (Warner Books); and A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida (Pineapple Press). Individual works have appeared in numerous national publications, most recently The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature; Saw Palm (Cuba Issue); the anthology Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Occupy the Workplace; Bedford/St. Martin’s Florida Literature; and Longman’s Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing.