SWWIM + The Betsy-South Beach + FIU Miami Beach Urban Studios + Miami Dade County’s Department of Cultural Affairs present a virtual poetry salon featuring Juliana Gray + Caroline Cabrera. The reading will be broadcast via Facebook Live and Zoom. Visit The Betsy Hotel on Facebook or RSVP for the Zoom link. The event will be closed captioned.
Juliana Gray is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Honeymoon Palsy (Measure Press 2017). She is also the author of Roleplay (Dream Horse Press 2012, winner of the Orphic Prize and the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize), and The Man Under My Skin (River City Publishing 2005), as well as the chapbook Anne Boleyn’s Sleeve (Winged City Chapbook Press 2013). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, NELLE, The Cincinnati Review, and other journals, and her humor writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and elsewhere. An Alabama native, she lives in western New York and teaches at Alfred University.
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Caroline Cabrera is the author of the lyric essay collection, (lack begins as a tiny rumble) from Tinderbox Editions, as well as three poetry collections and two chapbooks, including most recently The Coma of the Comet from Burnside Review and Saint X from Black Lawrence Press. She is the Education Coordinator & Lead Instructor at O, Miami. She is founder and editor of Bloom Books and cohost of the arts advice podcast Now that We’re Friends.
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