Ekphrastic Poetry Hour at Gallery 114

Name: Ekphrastic Poetry Hour at Gallery 114
Start: 2024-10-17T16:00:00-04:00
Location: HCC Ybor City Performing Arts Building

Schedule

Thu Oct 17 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

HCC Ybor City Performing Arts Building | Tampa, FL

Join us for an hour of ekphrastic poetry readings
while surrounded by art in Gallery 114's current
Exhibition,“Photographic Tableaux | Fabricated Realities”.
Three poets will respond in ekphrasis to photographic
artworks on display by artists Jaime Aelavanthara,
Thomas Whitworth, and Suzanne Camp Crosby.
ABOUT THE POETS
GLORIA MUNOZ
Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a Las Musas Mentorship. She’s a proud alum of the Tin House YA writers workshop. Through Moonlit Música, the company she cofounded, Muñoz writes and composes music for bilingual children’s programming in audio, film, and curriculum. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate.
Her writing has appeared in Puerto del Sol, VIDA Review, Acentos Review, Lumina, the Rumpus, Yes Poetry, Juke Joint, Best New Poets, Sweet, Burrow Press, Cosmonauts Avenue, Entropy, Wildness, Cagibi, and elsewhere. Muñoz is also the author of the chapbook Your Biome Has Found You. She holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of South Florida. A proponent of cross-disciplinary collaboration, Gloria has worked alongside botanists, musicians, dancers, historians, classicists, visual artists, conservationists, and neuroscientists. Most days she writes, teaches, and works with environmental nonprofits.
STEPHEN LINDOW
Stephen Lindow has been writing and performing poetry since 1986. In 1997-98 he toured with Poetry Alive!, Inc., He took a TESOL cert. in 2008. His poems have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Bateau & Meat For Tea. He was a poetry editor for The Naugatuck Review from 2010-11 and slam judge at Western New England College. While in L.A. in 2012 he created poetry films from his laptop, & published poems in ARTillery, Bad Robot Poetry & Penumbra. He is a SCUBA diver, urban explorer & noisician[sic] who performed Kurt Schwitters's 'Ursonata' with Dadaist group in Holyoke, MA. He lives in Florida where he is a member of Electric Arugula, an avant-garde band. He also emcees an Open Mic at SpookEasy in Ybor City.
PIPER HARROW
HCC installation specialist Piper Harrow is also a poet. Harrow’s poetry is inspired by music and movement. She’ll be reciting a poem inspired by Thomas Whitworth’s “Apocalypse” in conjunction with movement, props, and lighting.