Lit Chat with Local Poet and Author Michelle Lizet Flores

1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Lit Chat with Local Poet and Author Michelle Lizet Flores The&nbsp;Friends of the Bill Brinton Murray Hill Library sponsored a special Lit Chat Interview with local poet Michelle Lizet Flores. Michelle spoke with fellow poet and Lit Chat alum, Jessica Q. Stark, about her latest book of poetry.&nbsp; Michelle Lizet Flores is a graduate of the FSU and NYU creative writing programs. She currently works as a Creative Writing Instructor at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and co-hosts the What's in a Verse Poetry Open Mic at Rain Dogs. Publications include&nbsp;The NCTE English Journal,&nbsp;Salt Hill Journal, and&nbsp;The Talon Review. A finalist for the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Poetry, she wrote the chapbooks&nbsp;Cuentos from the Swamp&nbsp;and&nbsp;Memoria, and the picture book,&nbsp;Carlito the Bat Learns to Trick or Treat.&nbsp;Her short fiction is in the anthology,&nbsp;Places We Build in the Universe. Invasive Species,&nbsp;her first full-length collection of poetry, is currently available from Finishing Line Press. Interviewer&nbsp;Jessica Q. Stark&nbsp;is the author of&nbsp;Buffalo Girl&nbsp;(BOA Editions, 2023), a finalist for the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award,&nbsp;Savage Pageant&nbsp;(Birds, LLC, 2020), and four poetry chapbooks, including&nbsp;INNANET&nbsp;(The Offending Adam, 2021). Her poetry has most recently appeared in&nbsp;Best American Poetry,&nbsp;Pleaides, among other literary journals. She is a Poetry Editor at&nbsp;AGNI&nbsp;and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Florida. She co-organizes the Dreamboat Reading Series in Jacksonville, Florida. READ Check out&nbsp;Michelle's work from the library: https://jkpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=AUTHOR%3D%22michelle+lizet+flores%22&amp;te=&nbsp; THE LIBRARY RECOMMENDS More poetry to enjoy: If They Come For Us, by Fatimah&nbsp;Asghar Pity the Beautiful, by Dana Gioia Third Winter in Our Second Country, by Andres Rojas --- Never miss an event! Sign up for email newsletters at&nbsp;https://bit.ly/JaxLibraryUpdates&nbsp; Jacksonville Public LibraryWebsite:&nbsp;https://jaxpubliclibrary.org/ Twitter:&nbsp;https://twitter.com/jaxlibrary Facebook:&nbsp;https://www.facebook.com/JaxLibrary/ Instagram:&nbsp;https://www.instagram.com/jaxlibrary/ YouTube:&nbsp;https://www.youtube.com/user/jaxpubliclibraryfl Contact Us:&nbsp;jplpromotions@coj.net&nbsp; Completely Booked - Official Podcast of the Jacksonville Public Library http://completelybooked.libsyn.com/website <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/31090418/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/181917/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/171513093