Join The Betsy Hotel for these Escribe Aquí/Write Here Festival

Public Events – RSVP and receive link for Live Stream 

Meet & Share your work with poets, poetry reading by festival participants and live music both Zarzuela and Latin Jazz

Meet and share work with poets Francisco Aragon and Caridad Moro-Greniler – 7 pm in the Carlton Room

Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. His books include, After Rubén (2005), Glow of Our Sweat (2010), and Puerta de Sol (2005).  He’s also the editor of, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (2007). A native of San Francisco, CA, he is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, where he directs their literary initiative, Letras Latinas. He has read his work widely, including at universities, bookstores, art galleries, the Dodge Poetry Festival and the Split This Rock Poetry Festival. @fjaragon2011  (fjaragon1965@)

Caridad Moro-Gronlier is the author of Tortillera, winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize published by Texas Review Press (2021) and the chapbook Visionware published by Finishing Line Press (2009). She is a Contributing Editor for Grabbed: Poets and Writers Respond to Sexual Assault (Beacon Press, 2020) and Associate Editor for "SWWIM Every Day", an online daily poetry journal for women identified poets. Recent work can be found in The Best American Poetry Blog, Verse Daily, Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness (UF Press, 2021),and Limp Wrist Poetry Magazine. She resides in Miami, Florida with her family.  @caridadmoro  @caridadmoro1

Attend a pop-up Zarzuela performance, presented by Miami Beach Classical Music Festival – 9 pm on the Front Terrace

RSVP to artsandculture@thebetsyhotel.com