Literary Art
Poetry Mic Featuring Tricia Bauer, Reg E. Gaines & Sherry Robinson Svekis
ABOUT THE POETS:
TRICIA BAUER began her writing life with poetry and formally studied with Bob Hass and Louise Glück. Some of her poems found publication in anthologies and periodicals such as The Kenyon Review, but her book publications to date have been ones of literary fiction. Her first novel, Boondocking, was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program, and she received the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for her novel in vignettes, Father Flashes. A new novel, The Sixteenth, will be released next year. A native of Baltimore, Tricia spent over thirty years commuting from the woods in Connecticut to work in children's publishing in Manhattan before moving to this area with her husband, Bill Bozzone, almost seven years ago.
REG E GAINES is a Tony Award-winning playwright, Grammy-nominated lyricist, Artistic Director of the NYC Downtown Urban Arts Festival, and the author of four books of poetry. His latest collection, Circle of Fifths, was published in fall 2024. Recent and current projects include TIERS, which premiered in June 2024 at Theater Row, and his new musical The 88, with music by Calvin Gaines.
SHERRY ROBINSON SVEKIS is a New Englander who moved to Florida in 1973. She spent 20 years as a bookseller, including founding alongside her husband Liberties Fine Books and Music. After selling the store in 1994, her family relocated to Sarasota. A decade later, Sherry returned to her lifelong interests in history, archaeology, and the ways the past shapes individual and community identity. She earned her B.A. from New College of Florida in 2005 and has since been dedicated to voicing shared histories in order to inspire understanding, unity, and stronger communities. An avid traveler, Sherry loves long-distance walking, experiencing other cultures, and visiting her children in Los Angeles and France. She has long used poetry and photography as tools for deeper reflection, and her current project brings the two together, honoring family histories through objects, photographs, and poems.
