Key West Friends of the Library Welcome Arlo Haskell as guest speaker
On Mon., Feb 12, the Friends of the Key West Library will host Arlo Haskell at the Key West Theater, 512 Eaton St. as part of its speaker series. Admission is free. His talk begins promptly at 6:00 p.m. Seating starts at 5:30 on a first-come, first-served basis.
Haskell is a writer, historian, literary organizer, and publisher. As executive director of the Key West Literary Seminar, he is responsible for the vision and programming of one of the country’s preeminent literary conferences.
Haskell’s new book is The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969.) Drawing on years of independent research, The Jews of Key West is the first book to chronicle the development of South Florida’s oldest Jewish community.
Haskell is also the author of the poetry collections Fool Proof and Joker. He has edited critically acclaimed editions of poetry and literature in translation, including The Last Books of Héctor Viel Temperley. He published Harry Mathews’s poetry collection, The New Tourism, and is the editor of Mathews’s posthumous Collected Poems: 1956-2016 (forthcoming, 2018.)
He lives in Key West with his wife Ashley and their daughter Aviva.
For more information, go to http://friendsofthekeywestlibrary.org and click on lecture series.
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