Poetry at The Dalí

Poetry at The Dalí
October 9, 2025

Poetry at The Dalí is an ongoing series hosted by former poet laureate of St. Petersburg, Helen Pruitt Wallace, featuring select poets on the second Thursday of each month.

Helen Pruitt Wallace has published individual poems in several journals and anthologies. Individual books include Shimming the Glass House, and a chapbook, Pink Streets. A former Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg, she is the curator of The Dalí Poetry series.


Natalie Scenters-Zapico is a fronteriza from El Paso, Texas. Her latest book is My Perfect Cognate (Copper Canyon Press 2025). She is also the author of two previous collections, Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press 2019) and The Verging Cities (Colorado State University 2015). Winner of Yale University’s Windham Campbell Prize (2021), she has held a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation (2018), a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2017) and a CantoMundo Fellowship (2015). Natalie’s latest poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Paris Review, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, New England Review, Georgia Review and more. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library at the University of South Florida.


Romeo Oriogun is the author of Sacrament of Bodies and The Gathering of Bastards. A finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, he is the winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize,The Nigeria Prize for Literature and the Julie Suk Award. Oriogun poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review and others. He has also received fellowships and support from Monson Arts, Harvard University, The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and the University of Iowa. A juror for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, he currently serves as an Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University.