It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!
1. Turquoise The sky loved the bay so much he melted into her. Beside such devotion we, with all our pride, are less than ants. 2. Ocean Drive, Miami The hotel fronts pretend to be cake. Look out! Los niños are banging their spoons on the table. 3. A Generation The piece of paper we were given is too small. Still, up and down the rows we bend our heads, and a silence falls over us as along a street where one by one the house lights are going out.
Lola Haskins's new collection, Homelight, is just out from Charlotte Lit Press. The Betsy-South Beach is the hotel in “Poems Written in Pencil,” which appeared in Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare (University of Pittsburgh, 2019), also featured in The New York Times The Sunday Magazine. Past honors include the Iowa Poetry Prize, two NEAs, two Florida Book Awards, narrative poetry prizes from Southern Poetry Review and New England Review/Breadloaf Quarterly, a Florida's Eden prize for environmental writing, and the Emily Dickinson Prize from Poetry Society of America.
10/4 / Meet the Artist with visiting poet-in-residence Raina J. León / 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
10/4 / Poetry Reading with visiting poet-in-residence Raina J. León and local poet Susannah Winters Simpson / The Library at The Betsy-South Beach, Miami Beach, FL / Live and Live-Streamed on Instagram Live/Facebook Live at @swwimmiami / 7:30 pm EST / Free
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