"My teacher, oh my teacher. I will always cry when I think of my teacher." from a poem by Noami Shihab Nye
The Betsy Writer's Room hosts a night of women poets, in partnership with SWWIM (Supporting Women Writers in Miami). As the school year comes to a close, we are celebrating the work of poet educators, for where would we be without the teachers who love poetry and encourage their students to persist?
Join us for Poet and Educator in Residence Barbra Nightingale, along with local poet/educators Catherine Esposito Prescott and Jen Karetnick.
ABOUT THE POETS
Barbra Nightingale’s poems have appeared in numerous poetry journals and anthologies, including Rattle, The Florida Review, Barrow Street, Sacramento Poetry Review, Kalliope, Southern Women’s Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The Mississipi Review, InterlitQ, The Eloquent Atheist, Many Mountains Moving, Narrative Magazine, City of Big Shoulders, The Liberal Media Made Me Do It, Sonnets Out of Sequence, and Tigertail: An Annual. Alphalexia, her newest book just came out with Finishing Line Press (2017). Two Voices, One Past was a Runner Up in the 2010 Yellow Jacket Press Chapbook Award, and was published in September, 2010. Geometry of Dreams (2009) a full-length collection of poetry was published in 2009 by Word Tech Press, Ohio. She has six other collections of poetry, and a yet unpublished memoir, Husbands and Other Strangers. She’s an Associate Editor with the South Florida Poetry Review, and a professor Emeritus from Broward College, and an advisor Emeritus with Phi Theta Kappa. She lives and plays in Hollywood, Florida with her two and four-legged menagerie.
Originally from Long Island, New York, Catherine Esposito Prescott is the author of Maria Sings (Dancing Girl Press, forthcoming summer 2017) and The Living Ruin (Finishing Line Press, 2012). She earned an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from New York University. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including The Adirondack Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Cumberland River Review, MiPOesias, Pleiades, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. Her poems have also appeared in the anthologies: The Orison Anthology (Vol. 1, 2016), Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual: Vol. X: Sunstruck Matches, The Poetry of Yoga (Vol. 1), and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent.
Jen Karetnick received an MFA in poetry from University of California, Irvine and an MFA in fiction from University of Miami. She is the author of American Sentencing (Winter Goose Publishing, May 2016), finalist for the 2017 Julie Suk Award, and The Treasures That Prevail (Whitepoint Press, September 2016), and finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of Virginia Book Prize. She works as the Creative Writing Director for Miami Arts Charter School; dining critic for MIAMI Magazine; and freelance writer for publications including TheAtlantic.com, Culture, FSR Magazine, GoodHousekeeping.com, Racked.com and Redbook.com.