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Dreamboat & the UNF English Department invite you to an evening of poetry with visiting poet and Jacksonville native Isabella Desendi. Local poet Iman Byfield will read alongside Isabella.We hope you'll join us on November 4th at 7 PM at The Greenhouse Bar.
More about the poets:
Isabella DeSendi is a Latina poet and educator whose work has been published in POETRY, The Adroit Journal, Poetry Northwest, and others. Her debut poetry collection titled "Someone Else's Hunger" was published by Four Way Books on September 15, 2025. Her chapbook "Through the New Body" won the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship and was published in 2020. Recently, she has been named a 2025 New Jersey Poetry Fellow, a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and was included in the 2024 Best New Poets anthology, among other awards. Isabella has attended Bread Loaf Writers' Workshop, the Storyknife Writers’ Residency in Alaska, and holds an MFA from Columbia University. She currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Iman Byfield is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and artist from Chicago. She has lived in Jacksonville for eleven years and works as a communications director for a health equity nonprofit dedicated to improving health outcomes for people of African descent as well as an adjunct English professor. Iman's work has appeared in several print and digital publications. She is also a Callaloo Writing Workshop fellow and a Luminarts fellow.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Greenhouse Bar, Jacksonville FL, 200 Riverside Ave, Jacksonville, FL 32202-4631, United States
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