Poetry at The Dalí
May 8 @ 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.
Stacey Lynn Brown is a poet, playwright, and nonfiction writer originally from Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of the poetry collections Cradle Song (2009) and The Shallows (2018) and is the co-editor, with Oliver de la Paz, of A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. Her poems, plays, essays, and interviews have been widely published and anthologized. A professor of literature and creative writing at the university level for the past thirty years, she’s currently on permanent sabbatical, working on her next act.
Pedro el Poeta is an award-winning Hip-Hop/Spoken Word artist, an activist, a proud father of two, and an Eckerd College Graduate with a B.A. in Creative Writing. He’s performed at The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, The Poynter Institute, The Studio @ 620, The Nelson Poynter Memorial Library at USF, St. Pete, and The Safety Harbor Art and Music Center (SHAMC). The soundtrack Pedro performed for the internationally acclaimed short film “Torn Asunder,” won awards at film festivals around the country, including the Creative Tampa Bay Creative Catalyst Award. An honorary speaker at TEDx Tampa Bay, Pedro was also named artist of the year at the Tampa Bay Regional Talkie Awards.
