Poetry at The Dalí
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March 12 @ 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.
Sandra Simonds is an award-winning writer and professor. She is the author of ten books, including nine books of poetry and the novel Assia (Noemi Press, 2023), winner of the 2023 Vermont Book Award in fiction. Her poetry collection Burning Oracle is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in 2026, and Triptychs (Wave Books, 2022) was a New York Times selection. Her honors include the University of Akron Poetry Prize and the Cleveland State University Open Poetry Prize; she was also a finalist for the National Poetry Series.
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Best American Poetry, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Granta, Boston Review and Ploughshares. She has received residencies from The Arctic Circle, Millay Arts Colony and Story Villa Finland, among others. She has taught at Bennington College, Florida State University, Thomas University, and the University of Montana.
Campbell McGrath is the author of twelve books of poetry, among them Fever of Unknown Origin (Knopf, 2023) and XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century (Ecco Press, 2018), a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has received major prizes for his work, including the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, a USA Knight Fellowship, and a Witter-Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. His poetry has appeared in scores of literary reviews and quarterlies and over seventy-five anthologies, along with periodicals including Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the op-ed page of the New York Times; The New Yorker has published his poems in five different decades. Born in Chicago, he lives in Miami Beach and teaches at Florida International University, where he is the Philip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing and a Distinguished University Professor of English.
