Poetry at The Dalí
November 13 @ 6:00pm – 7:30pm
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.
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:
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.
Barbara Hamby is the author of Holoholo, Bird Odyssey and On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems. Burn, her latest, is her eighth book of poems. In 2010 her book of stories about Hawai’i, Lester Higata’s 20th Century, won the Iowa/John Simmons Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares and many other magazines. She teaches at Florida State University, where she is distinguished university scholar, and lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
David Kirby teaches at Florida State University. His latest books are a poetry collection, The Winter Dance Party, Poems 1983–2023 and a textbook modestly entitled The Knowledge: Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them. Entertainment Weekly has called Kirby’s poetry one of “5 Reasons to Live.” Kirby has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Humanities Council, which called him “a literary treasure of our state.”
