Poetry at The Dalí

About this event

@ Poetry at The Dalí is an ongoing series hosted by former poet laureate of St. Petersburg, Helen Pruitt Wallace, featuring select poets on the second Thursday of each month. This month, The Dalí welcomes poets Carolina Hospital and Virgil Suárez for a special reading in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. You can view past poetry performances on the Museum’s YouTube channel here. Location: The Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater or live on YouTube (link below) This event is held on the ground floor of the Museum (gallery access not included). Access to the Museum’s ground floor is free and open to the public. To watch the live stream from home, click below at the time of the program: stream now Helen Pruitt Wallace has published individual poems in several journals and anthologies. Individual books include Shimming the Glass House, and a chapbook, Pink Streets. A former Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg, she is the curator of The Dalí Poetry series. Carolina Hospital’s most recent poetry collections are All Roads Lead to Here (Anhinga Press)and Bamboo Ghost Notes (Contagioso Press). Other poetry collections include Key West Nights and Other Aftershocks and The Child of Exile, as well as Myth America and How to Get into Trouble, collaborations with Maureen Seaton, Holly Iglesias, and Nicole Hospital-Medina. She published the novel A Little Love, under the pen name C. C. Medina and collaborated on the bestselling novel Naked Came the Manatee. She also wrote the poetry used as lyrics to Greetings from Florida: Postcards from Paradise by composer Scott Lee with jazz vocalist Camila Meza, released as a CD by Sunnyside Records. Virgil Suárez‘s poems address the morass of the times we live in and takes the reader under the top layer we are meant to accept as the convenient truth. He shows us the absurd, interprets the “double speak,” and does it with the voice and the eye of the artist. His subjeot matter has a wide range: George Santos, gentrification, a…