ARTSPEAKSgnv

ARTSPEAKSgnv Serving North Central Florida
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ARTSPEAKSgnv Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting literacy, creativity, artistic expression & wellbeing, through Poetry, Spoken-Word, Storytelling and the Creative Arts.

14th Annual ARTSPEAKS: Bringing Poetry & People Together (08-30-2026) Poets and Community Members Gather at The Histor...
09/01/2026

14th Annual ARTSPEAKS: Bringing Poetry & People Together (08-30-2026) Poets and Community Members Gather at The Historic Thomas Center for A Celebration of Poetry and Expression

A View From Above | E Stanley Richardson 14th Annual ARTSPEAKS: Bringing Poetry & People Together
09/01/2026

A View From Above | E Stanley Richardson
14th Annual ARTSPEAKS: Bringing Poetry & People Together

ARTSPEAKS was AMAZING‼️💙We had over 30 participants Thank you to everyone who shared their poetry at the 14th Annual ART...
08/31/2026

ARTSPEAKS was AMAZING‼️💙
We had over 30 participants
Thank you to everyone who shared their poetry at the 14th Annual ARTSPEAKS: Bringing Poetry & People Together. Thank you to everyone in attendance for supporting community poetry and creative expression.

PATRICIA SMITH Is Coming To GAINESVILLE, FL.PATRICIA SMITH is the author of ten books of poetry, including The Intention...
08/28/2026

PATRICIA SMITH
Is Coming To GAINESVILLE, FL.

PATRICIA SMITH is the author of ten books of poetry, including The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scriber, 2025), winner of the National Book Award for Poetry; Unshuttered (Northwestern 2023); Incendiary Art (Northwestern 2017), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press, 2012), winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press, 2008), a National Book Award finalist. Her work has been published widely, including in Best American Poetry and Best American Essays. Her short story “When They Are Done With Us” won the Robert Fish Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was featured in Best American Mystery Stories.

Smith is a 2024 inductee into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, as well as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a chancellor in the Academy of American Poets, a Guggenheim fellow, an National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a finalist for the Neustadt Prize, a former fellow at Civitella Ranieri, Yaddo, and MacDowell, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history.

She is a professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, as well as a former distinguished professor for the City University of New York. Currently, she is at work on her first novel and a collection of short stories.
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