Poetry at The Dalí

Poetry at The Dalí
September 12, 2024
Poetry at The Dalí is an ongoing series hosted by former poet laureate of St. Petersburg, Helen Pruitt Wallace, featuring select poets on the second Thursday of each month.
Helen Pruitt Wallace has published individual poems in several journals and anthologies. Individual books include Shimming the Glass House, and a chapbook, Pink Streets. A former Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg, she is the curator of The Dalí Poetry series.
Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), and Candy (LSU Press, 2024), as well as the chapbooks Of Air and Earth and Circa MMXX (Unicorn Press, 2019 and 2022).
His poems have appeared widely in such journals as 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Southern Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has also been included in The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, and other anthologies. He lives in Tampa, Florida and teaches at the University of Tampa.
Heather Sellers, a Florida native, is the author of a craft book for poets, How to Make Poems, and two recent poetry collections, Field Notes from the Flood Zone and The Present State of the Garden, as well as two previous collections, The Boys I Borrow and Drinking Girls and Their Dresses.
Her essays appear in The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, The Sun, New Letters, and O, the Oprah Magazine, and The Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize anthology.
She regularly speaks to audiences about prosopagnosia (face blindness), most recently to employees at NASA. You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, her memoir, was Editor’s Choice at the New York Times.
She’s written three previous books on craft, Page After Page and Chapter After Chapter and The Practice of Creative Writing. She’s also written a children’s book, Spike and Cubby’s Ice Cream Island Adventure, and a collection of linked short stories titled Georgia Under Water.
Sellers teaches in the creative writing program at the University of South Florida.