Join us for a poetry reading and conversation on the role of the localized poet laureate in service to the community. Diannelly Antigua (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) grapples with the body as a site of pain and trauma in Bon monstr, chronicling her reckoning with shame, her fallout with faith, and the desire to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body. Love Prodigal pa TRACI BRIMHALL (Kansas) lives in the dishevelment of starting over from a divorce and a new diagnosis, cycles of loss, heartbreak, family, and chronic illness, reaching for the slow, messy, and imperfect process of healing. KARIDAD MORO-GRONLIER (Miami-Dade County) plunges readers into Cuban American life on-the-hyphen in Machin pou fè tortilla, considering the role of language on gender, sexuality, diaspora, and shame. Moderated by NICOLE TALLMAN, poetry ambassador for Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.

Achte Bon monstr – Antigwa

Achte Love Prodigal – Brimhall

Achte Tortillera: Poems – Moro-Gronlier