Join Didi Jackson and Judy Ireland for a poetry reading at The Betsy-South Beach Library. April 12th, starting at 7:30 PM EST.

Didi Jackson is the author of Moon Jar (Red Hen Press, 2020) and the forthcoming collection My Infinity. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Oxford American, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review among other journals and magazines. Her chapbook, Slag and Fortune was published by Floating Wolf Quarterly (2013). She has had poems selected for Best American Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, The Slow Down with Tracy K. Smith, and Together in Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and was a finalist for the Meringoff Prize in Poetry. 

Judy Ireland is the author of a poetry collection, Cement Shoes, which won the Sinclair Poetry Prize.  Her poems have appeared in Hotel Amerika, Calyx, Saranac Review, Eclipse, Cold Mountain, Coe Review, and other journals, as well as in two anthologies, the Best Indie Lit New England anthology and Voices from the Fierce Intangible World.  She is Senior Poetry Editor & Reading Series Producer for the South Florida Poetry Journal, Co-Director of  Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches, and teaches at Palm Beach State College.