About this Event
Award-winning poet Enid Shomer’s new and selected poems explore the many facets of womanhood, from youthful desire to life’s later stages.
Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome back Enid Shomer to the bookstore to celebrate her latest poetry collection, Riptide. In Riptide, Shomer’s poems, written over the last forty years, illuminate the nature of being. Elegant lyrics, anchored in her beloved Florida landscape, use stunning imagery to convey Shomer’s rapturous engagement with the natural world.
Shomer will be in converation with Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida, Hunt Hawkins.
With lush music and deeply spiritual attention, Shomer’s work transforms the mundane into the numinous. Now in her early eighties, Shomer is still at the top of her form.
Enid Shomer is the author of six books of poetry and three of fiction. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Boulevard, Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, etc. Among her awards are two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, three fellowships from the State of Florida, the Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry, the Lexi Rudnitsky Award from Persea Books for Shoreless, the Washington Prize for Stalking the Florida Panther, the Iowa Fiction Prize for Imaginary Men, and the Gold Medal in Fiction for Tourist Season. NPR named The Twelve Rooms of the Nile one of the six best novels of the year. Shomer has taught as Visiting Writer at Florida State University, the Ohio State University among others. For many years she edited the Poetry Series for the University of Arkansas Press. In 2013, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing from the Florida Humanities Council. She lives in Tampa.
Hunt Hawkins is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida. Winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, his book of poems, The Domestic Life, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Another book, Evening Houses, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. Individual poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Tri-Quarterly, Poet Lore, Plume, Epoch, and many other journals. Twice winner of the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, he has lived in Norway, Myanmar, Tanzania, and Poland where he taught as a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He served as English Department Chair at both Florida State University and the University of South Florida. Active in local and state poetry groups, he has been President of several organizations, including the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tombolo Books, 2153 1st Avenue South, St. Petersburg, United States
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