Coffee and Poetry at Jack’s House feat. St. Pete Poet Laureate Gloria Muñoz

Every month at the Jack Kerouac House of St. Petersburg we host a day of poetry, comraderie, and coffee. Every month a featured poet reads their work followed by an open mic with other local poets. This month’s poet is St. Petersburg Poet Laureate Gloria Muñoz!

Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of Your Biome Has Found You and Danzirly (University of Arizona Press, 2021), which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, a Las Musas Mentorship, St. Pete Arts Alliance’s Muse Award, Creative Pinellas’ Artist Grant, and attending the Tin House YA writers workshop. Through Moonlit Música, the company she cofounded, Muñoz writes and composes music for bilingual children’s programming in audio, film, and curriculum. She is proud to be St. Pete’s first Latina poet laureate.is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of Your Biome Has Found You and Danzirly (University of Arizona Press, 2021), which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, a Las Musas Mentorship, St. Pete Arts Alliance’s Muse Award, Creative Pinellas’ Artist Grant, and attending the Tin House YA writers workshop. Through Moonlit Música, the company she cofounded, Muñoz writes and composes music for bilingual children’s programming in audio, film, and curriculum. She is proud to be St. Pete’s first Latina poet laureate.