Poetry Mic Featuring Reg E. Gaines & Sherry Robinson Svekis

ABOUT THE POETS:

REG E GAINES is a Tony Award-winning playwright, Grammy-nominated lyricist, Artistic Director of the NYC Downtown Urban Arts Festival, and the author of four books of poetry. His latest collection, Circle of Fifths, was published in fall 2024. Recent and current projects include TIERS, which premiered in June 2024 at Theater Row, and his new musical The 88, with music by Calvin Gaines.

SHERRY ROBINSON SVEKIS is a New Englander who moved to Florida in 1973. She spent 20 years as a bookseller, including founding alongside her husband Liberties Fine Books and Music. After selling the store in 1994, her family relocated to Sarasota. A decade later, Sherry returned to her lifelong interests in history, archaeology, and the ways the past shapes individual and community identity. She earned her B.A. from New College of Florida in 2005 and has since been dedicated to voicing shared histories in order to inspire understanding, unity, and stronger communities. An avid traveler, Sherry loves long-distance walking, experiencing other cultures, and visiting her children in Los Angeles and France. She has long used poetry and photography as tools for deeper reflection, and her current project brings the two together, honoring family histories through objects, photographs, and poems.

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