SWWIM + The Betsy-South Beach + FIU Miami Beach Urban Studios + Miami Dade County’s Department of Cultural Affairs present a virtual poetry salon featuring Mia Leonin + Alexandra Lytton Regalado. 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.
Mia Leonin is the author of three poetry collections, Braid, Unraveling the Bed, and Chance Born (Anhinga Press) and the memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers (University of Arizona Press). In 2017, BkMk Press published Fable of the Paddle Sack Child, a book-length poem. Leonin has published poetry and creative nonfiction in New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, North American Review, and others. She teaches creative writing at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
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Alexandra Lytton Regalado’s poetry collection, Matria, is the winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). She is a CantoMundo fellow and her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2018, Narrative, Gulf Coast, and Creative Nonfiction among others. Co-founder of Kalina press, Alexandra is author, editor, and/or translator of more than ten Central American-themed books. She lives in San Salvadora and serves as president of the board of directors of the El Salvador Museum of Art. For more info visit: www.alexandralyttonregalado.com
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