House of Rhymes in a Jewel-Box Mansion Not Covered in Vines

Brush Pile A Tallahassee Brew

It was here when we moved in, a delicate For a Tallahassee brew, mess of dry branches and discarded Mix together golden liquid from Wakulla, Jackson and Bradford, white crab shells. A bird lands so gently Rose petals from Maclay, Sod from Bobby Bowden Field, on the tip of a bone-thin twig that the twig Coarse grits from Bradley’s, doesn’t dip; it doesn’t move at all. Brown-banded Cane syrup from the Tallahassee Museum, sparrow; bramble nuthatch; tawny titmouse— And leaves from the largest downtown live oaks. Infuse with magic from the Marching 100, I’ve been gone so long from Florida A summer concert at Cascades, I’ve forgotten all its birds, so I invent And a crisp autumn breeze. this one’s name. It flies away. Nearby, Stir until glowing and sprinkle in every corner of town. the restless hum of Monroe Street. Faintly, Stand back and watch the dreams unfold. the thirsty whisper of cypress. Tupelo. This heartbeat of water. I’m remembering. -Doug Alderson -Michelle Acker About the poet

About the poet Doug Alderson is the author of several books, including Wild Florida Waters, The Great Florida Seminole Trail, Waters Less Traveled, New Dawn for the Kissimmee Michelle Acker grew up in Jacksonville, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from River, Encounters with Florida’s Endangered Wildlife and A New Guide to Old Florida Hollins University. She currently lives in Tallahassee. Her work has been previously Attractions: From Mermaids to Singing Towers, which the Florida Writers Association published or is forthcoming in journals including the Florida Review, Spilled Milk, Saw placed in the top five of published books for 2017. He has won four first place Royal Palm, Scoundrel Time, 2River View, Gesture, Poetry is Dead, Permafrost, and elsewhere. Palm Literary awards for travel books and several other state and national writing and photography awards. Additionally, his articles, photographs and occasional poems Contact Michelle Acker at [email protected]. have been featured in numerous magazines.

Contact Doug Alderson at [email protected] and learn more about him at dougalderson.net or his listing on COCA’s Artist Directory at tallahasseearts.org/ artist/doug-alderson.

House of Rhymes Meditation on Lake Jackson Red-winged blackbirds rule In a jewel-box mansion not covered in vines summer, bully the eagles and egrets, but the Great Blue Dwelled Louella K., producer of rhymes is no where to be found Summer solstice comes She rhymed the squat ice box, she rhymed her tall lamp and goes without notice while the invasive tree frog She rhymed the piano, she rhymed her fern plant returns to the bedroom window Lawn maintenance She rhymed down the sidewalk, she rhymed to the church Home improvement Ducks in a row She still rhymes most days in her other-world perch on the shimmering lake Still, my restless heart -Jan Godown Annino leads me into another copyright, all rights reserved uncertain day, alone at the end of June.

About the poet -Terri Carrion Jan Godown Annino’s treks around town include selling her books under Park Ave- nue’s oaks and meeting other writers to wrangle worlds at the main LeRoy Collins About the poet Leon County Public Library. She is a hurricane lily gardener and lives with her family near a hidden city pond where they have watched otters splash. The Journal of Terri Carrion is a first generation American conceived in Venezuela and born in New Florida Literature and Milkweed Editions have published Jan’s poetry and National York to a Galician mother and Cuban father. She earned her MFA from Florida Inter- Geographic published her award-winning children’s book, “She Sang Promise,” about national University. Her poetry, fiction, non-fiction and photography has appeared Betty Mae Tiger Jumper. and disappeared in print and online, including in The Cream City Review, Hanging Loose, Pearl, Penumbra, Exquisite Corpse, Mangrove, Jack, Mipoesia, and Dead Drunk To learn more about Jan Godown Annino, visit her website at Dublin. Terri Carrion is co-founder of the global grassroots movement 100 Thousand bookseedstudio.wordpress.com. Poets for Change, is on the Board of Directors of the advocacy group Friends of Lake Jackson, and is President of Anhinga Press. She lives on Lake Jackson.

Contact Terri Carrion at [email protected]. Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get it with a side of poetry too! it with a side of poetry too! The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a stipend to the 20 participating poets. stipend to the 20 participating poets. We want to provide our community with a heaping helping We want to provide our community with a heaping helping of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” interactive map showing businesses currently offering take- interactive map showing businesses currently offering takeout and delivery food services. out and delivery food services. Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for more about “Poems To Go.” more about “Poems To Go.” #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects

-Katie Clark -Cynie Cory

About the poet About the poet

Katie Clark has been writing poetry and capturing light and shadows in photography Cynie Cory is the author of two books of poetry and a chapbook. She has written since high school. She’s a third generation photographer. She gets her inspiration from plays, creative nonfiction, and is currently at work on a novel about a murder in the the beauty of North Florida. Many of her poems have been published in anthologies. Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She had a month long writing residency in Fairhope, Her photography has been displayed in many galleries in North Florida, including Alabama in June 2019. Cory is a Visiting Instructor of English at Florida State University Tallahassee’s City Hall Gallery and the FSU Museum of Fine Arts. and loves Tallahassee.

Contact Katie Clark at (850) 980-0516 or [email protected] and learn more about her at wyspergrove.wordpress.com.

Square Mugs Sweet Olive Railroad Square’s Square Mug Café If we were to leave An idyllic future idly and Coffee Shop a savory eatery our pretty little longed for from storytellers music art and poetry city alone for, say, where I lay sprawled open mic for cultural creatives ten years, leave it out on the green living compliments not opposites different same embracing relatedness to its own devices, green grass of my own spirit matters when gathered together we would return to backyard. under canopy grove community – you are here– nothing but green on a city street map that looks like a tree! trees cooling Awash in Blue leaves and branches up there roots below the heated Daze, Hurricane Meridian and Monroe trunk of stability air and everywhere Lilies, Wandering Mahan and Tennessee horizontal fluidity something or other Ladies, Egyptian crossroad center of circle highway humming in bloom. Star Clusters. pathway Being to circumference Becoming cross within circle squared – Tallahassee And, with every intake of breath, Sweet Olive. -Linda Marie Cossa -Terry Galloway About the poet About the poet Linda Marie holds an MFA in painting from the University of South Florida, and a BFA from the University of Hawaii. She is a symbolist painter, writer, poet, and playwright. Terry Galloway is a writer and performer who has received recognition and awards Linda Marie’s poetry has been published in The Texas Observer, Hawaii Review, Blue from the NEA, the Texas Institute of Letters, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Hole, and Enigmatist among other poetry publications. She was nominated for a and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. She is known around Tallahassee in her Pushcart Prize. Before moving to Tallahassee in 2018, she was the host of Austin Poetry guise of a giant rodent named Mickee Faust. Society’s monthly poetry venue for six years. She is the host of My Favorite Books’ poetry and storytelling open mic, as well as an active member of Big Bend Poets. Contact Terry Galloway at (850) 524-0768 or [email protected]. Visit her website at theterrygalloway.com. Contact Linda Marie Cossa at (850) 597-7677. Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get it with a side of poetry too! it with a side of poetry too! The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a stipend to the 20 participating poets. stipend to the 20 participating poets. We want to provide our community with a heaping helping We want to provide our community with a heaping helping of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” interactive map showing businesses currently offering take- interactive map showing businesses currently offering takeout and delivery food services. out and delivery food services. Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for more about “Poems To Go.” more about “Poems To Go.” #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects

In Birds of North America, the black-crowned night heron rain has come, unexpected — a wet silk dresses the fig tree, looks like nothing special– a black still bereft of leaves & leaning farther down every year. and white kiwi with a keen eye, maybe, or a penguin that runs wind sprints. the porch invites a stillness — But under a slice of moon, on the edge of Lake Ella, a meditation, refuge in the downpour while doves coo-coo, hidden he is fascinating company and freezes as I watch him. in the water oak riding the back fence.

Then I step and he shrieks and sails along the surface, the rain, halted from clouds, still falls slowly from every branch & leaf, in seconds coming to rest so far away I can barely see him. sinks & puddles in the mossy clearing & unkempt underbrush straddling the hill. This game should be a long one, now, fewer raindrops, but an emerging tangle I think, as I start around the lake. of birdsong & chatter, the damp, swishing churn of tires and street hum, a startle of car alarm — When I finally look back I can no longer tell which light is my bedroom window. all soaking into the hillside and holding fast. -Carol Lynn Knight -Chad Hautmann

About the poet About the poet Carol Lynne Knight is the co-director of Anhinga Press, where she designs covers and Chad Hautmann has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Florida State University text, and edits books. Her first book of poetry, Quantum Entanglement, was published and has published a dozen poems, two novels, and numerous works of nonfiction. by Apalachee Press in 2010. Her second book of poems, A Fretted Terrain, Like Mars was published in February 2020. She is co-editor of Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets. Her poetry has appeared in Louisiana Literature, Tar River Review, Northwest Florida Review, Redactions, Iconoclast, Epicenter, HazMat, So to Speak and other journals. She is a winner of the Penumbra Poetry Prize. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

Contact Carol Lynne Knight at [email protected].

October Morning Frenchtown is Waiting Frenchtown is waiting, waiting patiently as it has for near two centuries The morning after the storm for its founder, the Marquis de Lafayette the city smells of pine, leaf mold, to return to see what Frenchtown has come to be the haven of freedmen, to those enslaved that were set free, Frenchtown was a beacon and wet red clay. Generators in a land of bondage – an island of liberty hum in the neighborhoods given to the children of Africa by the Marquis Frenchtown has been and is a glad town and at every crosswalk, a place of blues, jazz, laughter, and get-down fine houses built by pride and hard work giving our healing farms and gardens bearing fruits for all its own Oh yes, there have been hard times when the folks of Frenchtown were worn down new rhythm. but sturdy, hardy, hopeful, faithful, strong they are ever ready to sing their song Welcome home, Lafayette! We are here! Ready to go on!

-Jennifer Schomburg Kanke -Gordon Langdon Magill

About the poet About the poet Jennifer Schomburg Kanke has lived in Tallahassee, Flor- Gordon Magill has intermittently written poetry since college days. And being in a long relationship with a brilliant, prolific poet, his wife Linda Marie, has the effect of ida for nine years and now edits confidential documents inspiring him to write his own poetry. Gordon has been a chef, a journalist, a language for the government. Her work has appeared in Prairie arts teacher, and an interpretive exhibit writer. Gordon lived in California, New Mexico, Hawai’i, Oregon, and Texas before moving to Tallahassee in 2018. His poetry has been Schooner, Pleiades, and New South. published in a number of collections and anthologies.

Contact Gordon Magill at [email protected]. Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get it with a side of poetry too! it with a side of poetry too! The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a stipend to the 20 participating poets. stipend to the 20 participating poets. We want to provide our community with a heaping helping We want to provide our community with a heaping helping of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” interactive map showing businesses currently offering take- interactive map showing businesses currently offering takeout and delivery food services. out and delivery food services. Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for more about “Poems To Go.” more about “Poems To Go.” #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects

Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get it with a side of poetry too! it with a side of poetry too! The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a stipend to the 20 participating poets. stipend to the 20 participating poets. We want to provide our community with a heaping helping We want to provide our community with a heaping helping of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” interactive map showing businesses currently offering take- interactive map showing businesses currently offering takeout and delivery food services. out and delivery food services. Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for more about “Poems To Go.” more about “Poems To Go.” #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects Tallahassee Love A Perfect Weekend My heart runs deep to the depth of my soul with Tallahassee Love. Starts with pesto pasta at Bella Bella, stone’s throw A love that encapsulates my heart, and springs forth like a delicate pink rose from Lake Ella for Thursday Food Trucks, guitar riffs, in the springtime. lingering over lattes under Black Dog’s oaks, Barb’s brittles, Quarter Moon. Evening deepens into banter My daily love is drawn to a short walk, on a white sandy country road among groves and banjoes at the Blue. Then First Friday comes, date of live oaks, on a summer afternoon. night at Nefeteri’s, a stroll over to the square for rooms full of art, for the wild wonder that is 621. Senses alive, I am reminded of how the live oaks are sheltering me from the harsh rays of the sun. and the weekend’s just begun. It’s Frenchtown on Saturday: The live oaks are rooted in the land some are tall, twisted, and curvy way honey from local bees, dinosaur kale and collards from Sundiata’s kids. Lunch at Sweet Pea or Soul Veg? Impossible above their trunks. to choose, so we do both. We sag in the heat, revive ourselves Glimpses of light peek through every limb. with local roasts: Catalina, Red Eye; we’re a bunch of Lucky As I stop for a moment to rest sliding down the side of an old oak trunk, I look Goats. We’re downtown proud, loving the shady, lazy pace of this place. We drink loud local hops at Proof, slurp toward the sky at the overlapping limbs so far away, in a canopy form. pad thai at Bahn Thai, slide up to Waterworks: this is our This special moment is a haven for rest. sweet small town of a city, teeming with music and food and friends and Scotty Barnhart’s trumpet’s sultry Mystical as it seems live oaks portray strength, unity, endurance, beauty, and supply notes. Sunday’s a long walk in the sun at Cascade. an abundance of shade. I am elated at their natural beauty. We’re hungry. We’re happy. We’re home. Time is passing and I must move on. -Anne Meisenzahl Tomorrow I will be drawn into Tallahassee love again among the live oaks when I take my short walk again. About the poet -Felita Gale McNeill Anne Meisenzahl has taught adult education and exceptional education and written About the poet curricula for over thirty-five years. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Florida State University. Her poems and non-fiction have been published in The Georgetown Felita Gale McNeill is a poet and visual artist who has a strong love for the beauty of nature. Review, Teaching Tolerance, White Pelican Review, Ars Medica, Penumbra, Apalachee Review, and Life on the Line. Her novel Long Time Gone has just been published by TouchPoint Press. She has made Tallahassee her home for the past twenty eight years. Contact Felita Gale McNeill at [email protected]. Contact Anne Meisenzahl at [email protected].

Summer in My Capital City FLORA Breezy evening walks Shady trees and talks My dog howls her song GREEN, GROWTH’S SIGNAL – LET As I urge her gently along These somewhat neglected streets FOLIAGE CRADLE PROGRESS, That beckon more walks, less Tweets, Abuzz with gnats and cats And whiffs of “This and That” SOFTEN CONCRETE LINES Summer on the Southside is quite a… different tone Then that of pretty gardens found in Northeast homes -PENNY YOUNG Yet, when I hear the brass horns play… I know that this is My kind of day About the poet Ain’t life Grand? Ain’t it Pretty? It’s Summer in My Capital City Penny Young has lived in Tallahassee for over twenty years and lux- uriates in its cultural richness. She has published three novels and -Cynthia Portalatin is working on the fourth. Besides writing, Penny paints watercolors; photographs her world locally and abroad; advocates for social About the poet justice and awareness through activities such as the Tallahassee Remembrance Project, literacy and community health and safety; Cynthia Portalatin (aka Cynthia Rose) began writing in journals at seven-years-old, progressing to poems and short stories in her teen years. After earning bachelor’s degrees in journalism practices French and Spanish wherever she can; and teaches English and Spanish, she enjoyed a 20-year career writing and promoting agricultural and minority to immigrants whom she counts among her closest friends. Water outreach programs. In 2013, she published “Bloom Forever – A Poetry Journal” (as Cynthia aerobics and walking the trails which wind through Tallahassee’s Lamb) a collection of 115 poems. She has since published in two anthologies (short story and beauty are Penny’s other ways to salute life and its gifts. poetry) and is currently working on a pictorial book of poetry and inspiration thoughts. Cynthia is an active member of the Tallahassee Authors Network and Big Bend Poets and Writers. Contact Penny Young at [email protected]. Contact Cynthia Portalatin at [email protected] or visit her website at creativewords4light.com. Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get it with a side of poetry too! it with a side of poetry too! The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a stipend to the 20 participating poets. stipend to the 20 participating poets. We want to provide our community with a heaping helping We want to provide our community with a heaping helping of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” interactive map showing businesses currently offering take- interactive map showing businesses currently offering takeout and delivery food services. out and delivery food services. Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for more about “Poems To Go.” more about “Poems To Go.” #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects

-Ruth Garrison About the poet

About the poet Michael Rothenberg is the editor of BigBridge.org, co-founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change (www.100tpc.org) and the “Read A Poem To A Child initiative”initiative, and co-founder of Poets In Need, a non-profit 501(c)3, assisting poets in crisis. His most Ruth Garrison is a retired Leon County teacher. She taught English, drama, and dance recent books of poetry include Drawing The Shade (Dos Madres Press, 2016), Wake Up at Lincoln High School and in the International Baccalaureate program at Rickards High and Dream (MadHat Press, 2017), and a bi-lingual edition of Indefinite Detention: A Dog School. She has lived on Lake Iamonia for forty years, enjoying the beauty and wildness Story (Varasek Ediciones, Madrid, Spain, 2017). He lives in Tallahassee, Florida where of this cypress rimmed, water lily covered lake. he is currently the Florida State University Libraries’ Poet in Residence. Contact Ruth Garrison at (850) 893-1967 or [email protected]. Contact Michael Rothenberg at [email protected].

A beginning Haiku I ran my toes through the sugar sands near the Red Hills. Tallahassee treasure I opened my arms under the gentle oaks diverse, green, and welcoming in the open field. I ran forward come to the table into the wild day my arms stretched wide and welcoming -Katya Sabaroff Taylor the blue skies wrapped around me. -Jo Anne Richardson About the poet About the poet Katya Sabaroff Taylor, poet, writer, author, and teacher Jo Anne Richardson is a poet, photographer, and public speaker residing in beautiful of creative writing, has lived happily in Tallahassee since Tallahassee, Florida. Using vivid imagery and straightforward wording, Richardson writes about simple joys, important moments, and the power of nature to heal and 1990. She enjoys sharing the benefits of the writing life transform us. After spending a career in high tech, and residing in London, Miami, with others. Charleston, and Seattle, Jo Anne has returned home to the town where she was born and raised. In Tallahassee, she enjoys long walks, spending time with family and friends, and cheering on Florida State basketball. Contact Katya Sabaroff Taylor at [email protected].

Contact Jo Anne Richardson at [email protected] or visit her website at joannerichardson.com. Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t Physical distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get mean you can’t enjoy your favorite meal. Now you can get it with a side of poetry too! it with a side of poetry too! The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has launched “Poems To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from To Go” which pairs free poems with take-out orders from local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is local restaurants and food service organizations. COCA is picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a picking up the tab for initial printing costs and providing a stipend to the 20 participating poets. stipend to the 20 participating poets. We want to provide our community with a heaping helping We want to provide our community with a heaping helping of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants of poetry while supporting and celebrating local restaurants and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. and artists. Together, we will nourish both body and soul. “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with “Poems To Go” is offered by COCA in partnership with the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” (OEV). Visit oevforbusiness.org for their “Open for Takeout” interactive map showing businesses currently offering take- interactive map showing businesses currently offering takeout and delivery food services. out and delivery food services. Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for Visit coca.tallahasseearts.org/services/poems-to-go for more about “Poems To Go.” more about “Poems To Go.” #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #OpenforTakeout #PoemsToGo #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects #TallahasseeArts #COCAConnects