Key West Writers read KEY WEST SKETCHES to benefit the Tropic Cinema and the Key West Literary Seminar

The Tropic Cinema will host an event January 18th to jointly benefit the Key West Literary Seminar and the Tropic, beginning at 5:00 p.m., January 18th, with “drinks and nibbles” in the theater lobby.  At 5:50 ticket holders will head for the Carper Theater, where  several contributing writers to Key West Sketches—Writers at Mile Zero, will narrate “sketches” that consider what makes Key West—and the diverse, live-and-let-live people who make it their home—such a unique and special place.

Writers Meg Cabot, George Cooper, Peyton Evans, Arlo Haskell and Nan Klingener will read their “sketches” at the event; novelist John Leslie and former journalist Carey Winfrey, Sketches’ editor, will read pieces by absent writers. The book is a collection of essays, reminiscences, profiles and poems published this past September by Blair Publishing of Durham, North Carolina.  Of the anthology, “Florida Weekly” called it “a lasting literary portrait of the island.”

The origins of the book trace to the 2019 purchase by the Key West Literary Seminar of the eyebrow house on White Street where poet Elizabeth Bishop lived from 1938 to 1946, and where she wrote many of the poems in her breakthrough collection, North & South. Though the house is little changed since she lived there, it has required considerable restoration. To help with funding for the renovation, nearly 50 Key West writers wrote or donated pieces to the anthology, and all author proceeds will go toward maintenance of the Bishop House.  When renovations are completed, in 2024, it will become the Literary Seminar’s new headquarters as well as an important site for the public’s understanding of a singularly popular and influential poet.

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