Join Jessica Cuello and Rita Maria Martinez for a poetry reading at The Betsy-South Beach Library. November 16th, starting at 7:30 PM EST.

Jessica Cuello’s Liar was selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize and her manuscript Yours, Creature is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in spring of 2023. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2017 CNY Book Award, The 2016 Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. She is a poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY.

Rita Maria Martinez’s poetry explores resiliency amidst chronic daily headache (CDH) and migraine. Her poetry collection—The Jane and Bertha in Me (published by Kelsay Books)—celebrates Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Martinez’s work appears in the textbook Three Genres: The Writing of Fiction/Literary Nonfiction, Poetry and Drama, and in the Notre Dame Review, the Best American Poetry Blog, Ploughshares, Tupelo Quarterly, and SWIMM Every Day. Visit her site at comeonhome.org/ritamartinez/