Coffee & Poetry at Jack's House feat. Victoria Dym

The Jack Kerouac House of St. Petersburg is pleased to feature a local favorite Victoria Dym for our monthly Poetry series. In addition, some of the area's best and emeging poets show up for the open mic portion of the event.

There will be a $10 Cover Charge featuring baked goods from Chef Shelley.

Victoria Dym is a graduate of Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Clown College with a degree in Humility, a Bachelor of Arts, in Philosophy, from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Masters of Fine Arts, Creative Writing-Poetry from Carlow University. Her two poetry chapbooks, Class Clown, and When the Walls Cave In were published by Finishing Line Press in 2015 and 2018. Victoria’s chapbook, Spontaneous, was selected by Northwest Poet Laureate Katherine Nelson-Born as the winner of the 2021 Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge Contest, won a cash prize and subsequently was published by the West Florida Literary Federation in 2022. Ms. Dym's full-length manuscript, The Hatchet Sun, was published by Finishing Line Press in August 2023. She is working on book number five, Shaving the Yak.

Host or Publisher The Jack Kerouac House of St. Petersburg, Inc.