The Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour is thrilled to introduce Andres Rojas to Orlando at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 27th at the Timucua Arts Foundation White House.

Andres Rojas has an M.F.A. from the University of Florida and is the author of the audio chapbook The Season of the Dead (EAT Poems, 2016). His poetry has been featured in Best New Poets, 2017, and has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in, among others, AGNI, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, and Poetry Northwest. He is the current poetry editor at Compose, and blogs about writing at https://teoppoet.wordpress.com.

The concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town. Everybody wins!

Jacksonville writers reading in Orlando are: Sohrab Homi Fracis, Tim Gilmore, Laura Hoffman, Matt Lany, Andres Rojas, and Nikesha Elise Williams. Orlando writers hosting and reading are: Shawn Welcome and Tod Caviness.

Doors at 7. Free and open to the public. (Donations for the venue acepted.) Bring a bottle of wine or some bites to share, please.

Tim Gilmore will join Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour on May 27th at 7:30 p.m. at the Timucua Art Foundation’s White House. Gilmore teaches Literature and Writing at Florida State College at Jacksonville, where he was awarded a 2018 Distinguished Faculty Award. The Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville named Gilmore the 2018 “Literary Artist of the Year.” Also in 2018, Gilmore served on the Jacksonville City Council’s Civil Rights History Task Force. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida.