Poetry at The Dalí - Canceled
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October 10 @ 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Due to Hurricane Milton, this event has been canceled.
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.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we have two Cuban poets, Caridad Moro-Gronlier and Silvia Curbelo, joining us for this month’s poetry series.
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.
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.
Caridad Moro-Gronlier was appointed the second Poet Laureate in County history by Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava in April 2024.
Caridad is the author of Tortillera, the winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize published by Texas Review Press (2021), Visionware (Finishing Line Press, 2009) and a forthcoming book of poetry, As to Your Comment. She is also the editor of Grabbed: Poets and Writers Respond to Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing (Beacon Press, 2020).
Caridad serves as the Associate Editor for SWWIM Every Day, an online daily poetry journal for women identifying poets and as The Betsy’s Writer’s Room Poetry-Curator-At- Large. In 2023, she was Series Editor of From the Writer’s Room at The Betsy for a monthly column for The New Tropic (2023). In addition, her work has been featured in The Best American Poetry Blog, Verse Daily, NPR, The Hive, Split This Rock, Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry and others.
Caridad is the recipient of a Julia Peterkin Literary Award (2023), an International Latino Book Award Honorable Mention (2022), an Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention (2022), First Horizon Award Finalist (2022), two Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grants (2023 and 2023), an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant (2015) and a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in poetry (2007).
She lives with her wife and son in Miami, FL.
Silvia Curbelo is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Falling Landscape and The Secret History of Water, both available from Anhinga Press, and two chapbooks. Awards include poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Cintas Foundation and the Writer’s Voice, as well as the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review. Her poems have been published widely in literary journals and more than three dozen anthologies, including Helen Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry (Beford/St Martin) and The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (W.W. Norton). A native of Cuba, Silvia has lived in Tampa all her adult life.
