Join Suzanne Frischkorn and Susannah Simpson for a poetry reading at The Betsy-South Beach Library. March 15th, starting at 7:30 PM EST.
Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of Fixed Star (JackLeg Press 2022), Girl on a Bridge, Lit Windowpane, and five chapbooks. Her honors include the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Writer’s Center for her book Lit Windowpane, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Ecotone, Indiana Review, The Los Angeles Review, North American Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is an editor for $ - Poetry is Currency and serves on the Terrain.org editorial board.
Susannah Winters Simpson is a hospice nurse, ESL tutor, and she facilitates her proprietary WriteRECOVERY curriculum in alcohol and drug treatment centers. Her work has been published in North American Review, Potomac, Wisconsin Review, South Carolina Review, POET, Nimrod International, Poet Lore, Salamander, Sequestrum, South Florida Poetry Journal, SWWIM, and Xavier Review among others. Her poems have been anthologized in Full Moon and Foxglove, Fierce Voices from the Intangible World and Beyond Words: Women. Life. Her book Geography of Love & Exile was published by Cervena Barva Press. Susannah has been a founding member of both the New Mexico Poetry Alliance and Poets for Peace, Long Island Chapter. She currently serves as the founder and co-director of Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches. Susannah holds an MFA from Bennington, a Ph.D. from SUNY/Binghamton, and a postgraduate certificate from the Center for Journal Therapy.