Poetry at The Dalí is an ongoing series hosted by St. Petersburg Poet Laureate, Helen Pruitt Wallace. Occurring on the second Thursday of each month, each evening will feature Wallace joined by selected poets.

About the Poets:
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of two poetry collections: The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons (Acre Books, 2020), a Rumpus book club pick and one of The Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2020; and Chord Box (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), a finalist for the Lamdba Literary Award. Her poems appear in POETRY, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Bennington Review, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. Her creative nonfiction has been included in Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best American Travel Writing. A former Kenyon Review Fellow, she currently teaches at American University and lives in Washington, D.C.

Enid Shomer is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, most recently Shoreless: Poems (2020), which won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editors’ Choice Award from Persea Books. Her poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, New Criterion, Paris Review, Poetry, and many other magazines as well as more than sixty anthologies and textbooks. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing from the Florida Humanities Council in 2013 and has been the subject of numerous interviews on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” and “Weekend Edition Sunday.” She lives in Tampa, Florida, with her husband, the painter Levent Tuncer.

For more information on upcoming events at The Dalí visit: https://thedali.org/events