Join YellowJacket Press
(YJP) for a night of poetry, music and fun!
The 6th Annual
Florida Poets Happy Hour and Prime Time Show will take place on Friday,
September 27, 2013 from 7-9pm at Kahwa
Coffee at The Element, 808 N. Franklin St. Suite 117, Tampa.
The Happy Hour and Prime Time Show has become a
favorite fall event, celebrating Florida poetry with readings, refreshments,
YJP’s famous raffles, book signings and all-around frivolity. Taking place at
one of downtown Tampa’s hippest establishments, this year’s event will feature new YellowJacket Press poet George Bishop,
winner of the 2013 Peter Meinke Prize for his manuscript Following Myself Home. Mr. Bishop will be joined by local poets
Melanie Graham, Winnona Elson Pasquini, and Nikita Hernandez; staff members of Sweet: A Literary Confection, K.C. Wolfe
and Melissa Carroll; and Alison Powell of the Oxford Exchange bookstore. Gloria Munoz will sing Lorca poems.
YellowJacket
Press is an independent non-profit poetry press and currently the only
publisher of poetry chapbook manuscripts in Florida. Established in 2005
by Gianna Russo, YJP sponsors the annual Chapbook Contest for Florida Poets and
the Peter Meinke Prize for Poetry.
Renowned across the state, the contests identify the state’s most vital
and vibrant poets and bring their exhilarating,
well-crafted poems to the public eye.
A $5.00 donation will support YellowJacket Press.
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