Escribe Aqui / Write Here Festival: Online Reading
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As part of the 9th annual Escribe Aqui / Write Here Festival, a reading hosted by CollaboARTive will be presented on Zoom from 7:00 to 8:30 PM on Friday, September 8. This year’s program includes residencies for 10 artists in The Betsy Writers Room (thebetsywritersroom.com) and 2 live-streamed readings hosted by Poet Caridad Moro-Gronlier - with a special introduction by Miami Dade Poetry Ambassador, Nicole Tallman. The 2023 festival participants include Caridad Moro-Gronlier (curator), Dustin Brookshire, Veronica Corpuz, Catherine Esposito Prescott, Tyler Gillespie, Melissa Gomez, Judy Ireland, Alexis Ivy, Arsimmer McCoy, Alina Pleskova, Juliet Romeo, and KC Trommer.
Escribe Aquí / Write Here is an initiative that honors artists working at the intersection of cultural experience and thought. As part of The Betsy’s literary programs, the festival was created in 2015 by two Latinx writers: Cuban-American Young Adult writer Pablo Cartaya and Peruvian born novelist/editor Pedro Medina Leon, Founder/Editor in Chief at Miami-based publisher, Suburbano Ediciones. The project received initial funding from The Knight Foundation and is sustained with support from The Betsy Hotel and the Plutzik Goldwasser Family Foundation, under the direction of Deborah Plutzik Briggs, The Betsy Hotel’s Vice President for Arts and Community Engagement. Caridad Moro-Gronlier, author of Tortillera: Poems (Texas Review Press, 2021) is the 2022 and 2023 community curator.