Poetry at The Dalí

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 wayward spy balloon, a classroom lockdown. And yet he can turn our attention away from the chaos and the surreal as he relates the hope he has for his granddaughter, ” … who will remember the stories I whisper in her ears. Her poet grandfather reaching through the loam and dusk to spark her imagination into flourishing. ” – Misericordia Of Dust, for Corazon, my granddaughter. The poems in this collection are not meant to alarm with cries of “the sky is falling!”, the poet knows we are way beyond that point, but to illuminate the errors of our ways before the damage is beyond repair. These poems should be considered a warning to be shared and passed on to friends and strangers alike.