SWWIM Poetry: Nicole Cooley & Caroline Cabrera

Join us for a poetry reading with Nicole Cooley and Caroline Cabrera at The Betsy-South Beach Library. Hosted by SWWIM as part of an ongoing series.

ABOUT NICOLE COOLEY: Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans and is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Of Marriage (Alice James Books 2018) and Girl after Girl after Girl (LSU Press 2017), as well as the forthcoming Mother Water Ash (LSU Press 2024).  She has also published two chapbooks and a novel. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a fellowship from The American Antiquarian Society and the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.  Her poems have appeared most recently in Poetry, DIODE, and Scoundrel Time. She is working on a new collection of poems titled Trash. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York.

ABOUT CAROLINE CABRERA: Caroline Cabrera is the author of the lyric essay collection, (lack begins as a tiny rumble) from Tinderbox Editions, as well as three poetry collections, Saint X (winner of the Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press), The Bicycle Year, and Flood Bloom, and two chapbooks, The Coma of the Comet (winner of the Burnside Review chapbook contest) and Dear Sensitive Beard (Dancing Girl Press). She holds an MFA in Poetry from The University of Massachusetts. She serves as Artistic Director for O, Miami.

Host or Publisher The Betsy Hotel