Many thanks to SWWIM (Supporting Women Writers in Miami) and editor Caridad Moro-Gronlier for featuring my pantoum “Cocoa Beach” (from the 
new “Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing” anthology) as the magazine’s poem of the day on Nov. 13.
SWWIM is featuring poems from “Grabbed” in conjunction with the Miami Book Fair, which is virtual and starts tomorrow with events featuring today’s finest writers including “Grabbed” editors Richard Blanco, Elisa Albo, Caridad Moro-Gronlier and Nikki Moustaki over eight inspiring days.
I could not be more excited that my poems “Cocoa Beach” and “Sweet Sixteen” are included in a #MeToo anthology of poetry and prose — Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing — recently published by Beacon Press.
The anthology features well-known writers such as Jericho Brown, this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove alongside many exciting, newer voices, all of whom were asked to describe what being “grabbed” means to them. Memoirist Joyce Maynard wrote the foreword, and Anita Hill contributed the afterword.
The book can be ordered now from IndieBound or Amazon. Many thanks to the publisher and editors, especially Caridad Moro, for their hard work
I’m honored to have one of my poems, “Traveling Light,” on exhibit at the Orlando International Airport. “Words in Flight: A Celebration of Orlando Area Poets” pairs poems inspired by flight, travel and transformation with airport photographs. 
Twelve other local poets including Orlando Poet Laureate Susan Lilley, former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins and two teen writers are represented.
The exhibit is on the airport’s third level in the Main Terminal near the checkpoint for Gates 70-129 (by the Starbucks) through Sept. 30.
I’m grateful to the airport and the city of Orlando for recognizing that art has never been more necessary. Check it out if you can.
I’m happy to share that my poem “Hurricane Season” won the Orlando History Center’s Accidental Historian Poetry Contest.
The poem is part of the Accidental Historian exhibit, which is based on the premise that people who document the world around them can accidentally become historians. The exhibit will be open through Jan. 19, 2020.
I’ll read “Hurricane Season” at the History Center’s Historically Poetic reading on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 6 p.m. The lovely Susan Lilley, Orlando’s poet laureate, will share some of her gems about Florida, and the free exhibit will be open before and after the reading. Visitors can create 19th-century “tweets” and step into a larger-than-life, Instagrammable photo station.
The Orlando History Center is at 65. E. Central Blvd.
Thursday, Nov. 7, 6 p.m.
new “Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing” anthology) as the magazine’s poem of the day on Nov. 13.
