College invites community to CFK Poetics

Pictured: CFK Poetics 2022 will feature poets Barbara Hamby and David Kirby on March 16.

KEY WEST, FL, March 3, 2022—The College of the Florida Keys (CFK) invites the community to attend its CFK Poetics event on March 16 at 6 p.m. in the Library on the Key West Campus. The annual visiting poets activity will feature live readings from acclaimed Florida poets Barbara Hamby and David Kirby. They will read some of their works and take questions from the audience. The event is free for all attendees.

The featured poets, Hamby and Kirby, are a married couple. Both are professors at Florida State University and have authored numerous award-winning books.

Hamby’s first book, Delirium, won the Vassar Miller Prize, The Kate Tufts Award, and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, and The New York Times.

Kirby’s latest books are a poetry collection, Help Me, Information, and a textbook entitled The Knowledge: Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them. His collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for both the National Book Award and Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize.

CFK Poetics is a series that aims to develop awareness of and immersion in the humanities landscape by connecting students and the community with poetry on the national level in a way that is immediate to their own experiences. Since 2019, visiting poets have come to CFK or appeared virtually to share their work and have conversations with the student body as well as the community at large. Formerly featured poets include B.H. Fairchild, Chelsea Rathburn, Richard Blanco, and Ross Gay.

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