The Betsy Hotel: Zen and the Art of Writing in America with Lee Herrick

Monday, June 29th from 7-8pm The Betsy and FIU Miami Beach Urban Studios, present an online arts series hosted by Miami Writer Pablo Cartaya featuring contemporary writers creating in a multicultural world.

Broadcasting via Zoom.com. To get access, RSVP here.

Lee Herrick is the author of Scar and Flower and two other books of poems, Gardening Secrets of the Dead and This Many Miles from Desire. He is co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books, 2020). His poems appear widely in literary magazines, textbooks, and anthologies such as One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form; Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice, with an introduction by Common; Here: Poems for the Planet, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama; California Fire and Water; and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, among others. Born in Daejeon, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months, he served as Fresno Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. He lives in Fresno, California and teaches at Fresno City College and the MFA Program at Sierra Nevada University.