The First Art

By Danielle DeTiberus

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Danielle DeTiberus teaches creative writing in Charleston, SC. Her work has appeared in Academy of American Poets, Best American Poetry, Entropy, The Missouri Review, River Styx, Waxwing, and elsewhere. She received a poetry fellowship from the South Carolina Academy of Authors in 2016, and served for ten years as the Program Chair for the Poetry Society of South Carolina. More of her work can be found at danielledetiberus.com and you can find her online @DDeTiberus.

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• 4/10 / Meet the Artist with visiting poet-in-residence Tyler Mills / The Library at The Betsy-South Beach, Miami Beach, FL / Live and Live-Streamed on Instagram Live/Facebook Live at @swwimmiami / 6:00 pm EST / Free

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