PoetryMic with Susan Delaney Spear and Tim Conroy

Susan Delaney Spear was a teacher/professor in the Denver, Colorado area for 20 years. After earning an MFA in Poetry with an Emphasis in Verse Forms from Western Colorado State University, she taught creative writing and poetry. Her poems have been published widely in print, on-line, and anthologized. Her work, which is both accessible and moving, deals with the natural world, loss, and the spiritual journey. She has published two collections of poetry: BEYOND ALL BEARING (2018) and ON EARTH... (2022). Both collections were published by Resource Publications. She is the co-author (with David J. Rothman) of LEARNING THE SECRETS OF ENGLISH VERSE (2022, Springer), a creative writing poetry textbook that focuses on meter and form. She is now retired and lives in Tampa. You can find her at www.susandelaneyspear.com.

Tim Conroy, author of the collections THEOLOGIES OF TERRAIN and NO TRUE ROUTE, is a poet and former educator. His work has appeared in Fall Lines, Blue Mountain Review, Jasper Magazine, Marked by the Water, Sheltered, Twelve Mile Review, Poetry on the Comet, The Post and Courier, Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth, DWG Anthology, and Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. In 2022, he received the Broad River Prize for prose from Fall Lines, Volume IX. A founding board member of the Pat Conroy Literary Center established in his brother’s honor, Tim and his wife Terrye live in Dunedin, Florida.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Bookstore1Sarasota, 117 S. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, United States