Join Our Team as a Gallery Curator! Creative Pinellas is seeking a Gallery Curator to lead engaging exhibitions and programming that inspire, connect, and uplift our arts community. This role offers an exciting opportunity to collaborate with artists, curators, and partners while shaping the future of arts and culture in Pinellas County…. Read More
Excerpt from: Cigar City: Tales from a 1980s Creative GhettoBy Paul Wilborn/St. Petersburg PressWinner of the 2019 Gold Medal in Fiction/Florida Book Awards Florida is normally dry in October but… Read More
The Art Lesson Years before I decided to become a nun, I drew a rabbit. At St. Simeon’s Catholic School, mornings filled up with daily Mass, catechism, arithmetic drills. But… Read More
Red Tide Warningby Lenore Myka(excerpt; first appeared in The American Scholar) The first sign is posted in the window of the empty ranger station and written in the style of… Read More
Alligators at John Chesnut Park, Florida, March 2020 We sway the path, and our feet press flat fans of stocky date palms to the earth like sweaty, overworked clothes. Our… Read More
High King of the Alps Glaciered tiers, peaks like serrated teeth, dipping and rising, ebbing and flowing, in a predictable pattern. Except for one outlier, the mighty Matterhorn. Its snowy… Read More
Dunedin Causeway, 2002 We drove out to Dunedin Causeway, you, strapped into your car seat in the pickup you later told me I couldn’t sell. We walked the rocky shoreline… Read More
Corelle 39 My new husband keeps buying dishes. Two ivory plates with a wide rim, A heavy black stoneware set. He says he wants variety for Plating his dishes he… Read More
Easy Humans After falling from the father, astro weather and inner verse, from the not-so safe head of heaven, where I was micro consciousness, where solar fungi ate my surface… Read More
Skirt of Pearls The dress craved motion, but she always found herself in stillness. Stuffed in the back of a wardrobe, smothered by tulle and silk. Hidden away. Left behind…. Read More
