Dorsey Craft is the author of two collections of poetry: A Brief History of Accidental Inventions and Plunder, which won the 2019 May Sarton NH Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in the Adroit Journal, Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, POETRY, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She is also the author of a chapbook, The Pirate Anne Bonny Dances the Tarantella (CutBank 2020), which can be found in the library's Zine Collection.
"With a care and craft that careens wild around corners, not just lines and stanzas but whole sails and crossbones, these poems' transgressive, spilling energy is unshorn by expectations." - Ed Skoog
#Attend the Lit Chat Author Talk
This Lit Chat Author Talk is a 30-minute program consisting of a 20-minute presentation by author Dorsey Craft and 10 minutes of audience Q&A.
#San Marco Branch Library
6 - 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13 — Register
A book sale and signing will follow the program.
Did you know that all of our Lit Chat authors' books count toward your Jax Stacks Reading Challenge completion? Find out what other authors we're hosting this year and join in the fun!
#Keep Reading
Check out Dorsey's books from the Library!
Dorsey's work has received support from the Sewanee Writer's Conference, The Anderson Center at Tower View, and Yaddo. She is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of North Florida and serves as Assistant Poetry Editor of Agni, a literary journal published at Boston University.
#The Library Recommends:
- Time is a Mother, by Ocean Vuong
- Counting Descent, by Clint Smith
- The Sun and Her Flowers, by Rupi Kaur
- Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz
- Son of Nobody, by Yann Martel
- Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times, by Tracy K. Smith
- Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, by Chen Chen
- The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, by Franny Choi
- Bluff: Poems, by Danez Smith
- I Would Leave Me if I Could: a Collection of Poetry, by Halsey
#Dorsey Recommends:
Find inspiration for your own writing in and around Jacksonville...
Restaurants:
- Safe Harbor—fresh Mahi tacos on the water
- The Greenhouse Bar—cute atmosphere and coffee
- Pecan Craft Kitchen—farm to table just over the line into St. Johns County. Even the cocktails made me feel healthy
- Brine—splurge on a caviar grilled cheese
- Myrtle Avenue Brewing—big, open outdoor space for kids with rotating food trucks
Outdoors:
- Theodore Roosevelt Area of Timucuan Preserve—gorgeous lookout point over the marsh
- UNF Trails
- Riverfront Plaza Park—slides and rock-climbing wall entertain my child for hours
- Tommy Hazouri Sr. Park—our neighborhood park w/ a boat ramp and fishing dock + recently revamped play structure
- Cummer Museum & Gardens, especially Summer at the Cummer!
At Night:
- Blue Jay Listening Room
- The Walrus
- Grey Matter Distillery—cutest themes
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