Meet and Greet Happy Hour

About Fish Streets Before Dawn:

Fish Streets Before Dawn brings us all the fabric of Rick Campbell’s created worlds, and then he takes us further as his energy expands and contracts along newer avenues of thought and feeling. Campbell is one of his generation that took to America’s roads and byways, old cars, hitchhiking, The Greyhound, and just plain walking. . . . Campbell’s wanderings and questing are testimony to the core of his art: surviving, yes, but surviving as the step that allows us to pursue any small good we can bring along with us.

About Rick Campbell:

Rick Campbell is a poet, essayist, and editor living on Alligator Point, Florida. His collection of essays, Sometimes the Light was published by Main Street Rag Press in the Spring of 2022. His most recent collection of poems is Provenance (Blue Horse Press). He’s published six other poetry books as well as poems and essays in journals including The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Gargoyle, Fourth River, Kestrel, and the Alabama Literary Review. He teaches in the University of Nevada-Reno’s MFA program.

About Portals:

Portals: Poems by Sean Sexton is as expansive in subject, tone, and structure as it is breathtaking in the lyrical quality of its craftsmanship and language. Reading this stunning collection is like looking inside the workings of the mind and soul and spirit of a man who has given his life to poetry but also to nature, family, friends, art, music, and-if that’s not enough-the arduous life-work of a cattle rancher.

About Sean Sexton: 

Sean Sexton was born in Indian River County and grew up on his family’s Treasure Hammock Ranch. He divides his time between managing a 700-acre cow-calf and seed stock operation, painting, and writing. He has kept daily sketch and writing journals since 1973. He is author to three full volumes of poems including Blood Writing (Anhinga Press, 2009), May Darkness Restore (Press 53, 2019), and Portals (Press 53, 2023). He has performed at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV, Miami Book Fair International, Other Words Literary Conference in Tampa, FL and the High Road Poetry and Short Fiction Festival, in Winston-Salem, NC. He has garnered several nominations for Pushcart Prizes, and received a Florida Individual Artist’s Fellowship in 2001.

He is a board member of the Laura Riding Jackson Foundation (LRJF.org) and founding event chair of its Annual Poetry and Barbeque held each April, now in its twelfth year. He also co-founded Advent and Lenten Poetry and Organ Concert Series at The Community Church of Vero Beach, (ccovb.org) featuring nine concerts annually, attracting poets from all over the U.S.. He became inaugural Poet Laureate of Indian River County in 2016.