Poetry at The Dalí
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May 14 @ 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.
Erin L. McCoy’s debut poetry collection, Wrecks, was published by Noemi Press on October 15, 2025. It was a finalist for the Noemi Book Award and winner of the Gold Florida Book Award. Her debut novel, Underlake, was published by Doubleday just last month. It received a starred review from Booklist and is one of People magazine’s Best New Books of May. Erin’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Narrative, Bennington Review, Pleiades, Conjunctions, Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod International Journal and other publications.
She holds an MFA in poetry and an MA in Hispanic studies from the University of Washington, where she specialized in twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature. She’s received a Fulbright Fellowship; a Critical Languages Scholarship; an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship; and the Oakley Hall III Memorial Scholarship to attend the Community of Writers, among other awards.
Brian Turner is the author of five collections of poetry—from Here, Bullet to The Wild Delight of Wild Things—and a memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country. He is the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres anthologies. A musician, he has also written and recorded several albums with The Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11:11 (Me Smiling) and The Retro Legion’s American Undertow. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic and Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
A Guggenheim Fellow, he has received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando, Florida, with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest golden retriever.
