A Night of Poetry with Florence Dacey and Michael Bazzett on Oct. 22
Published Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Southwest Minnesota State University’s Creative Writing Program presents “A Night of Poetry” with poets Florence Dacey and Michael Bazzett on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026 from 7:00-8:30pm in Charter Hall 201 on the campus of SMSU.
The reading and discussion will be moderated by Tarik Dobbs, Assistant Professor of English at SMSU.
Florence Chard Dacey is the author of five poetry collections. She is the recipient of a Loft-McKnight Poetry Award, a Nimrod-Hardman Poetry Prize, and Southwest Minnesota Arts Council regional grants. Dacey has a deep relationship to the town of Cottonwood and the surrounding area of southwestern Minnesota, where she lived for more than 40 years. Dacey, who is now based in Northfield, has had a long and interesting career. She spent decades teaching writing workshops around Minnesota and worked with the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in Minneapolis. Her latest book The Mercy of Stone spans 50 years of her life and writing.
Michael Bazzett is a poet and teacher based in Minneapolis. He is the author of five full-length poetry collections, two chapbooks, and two books of poetry-in-translation. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, West Branch, Guernica, Copper Nickel, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The London Magazine, The Nation, GRANTA, The Sun, Tin House, and 32 Poems, among others. He won the 2025 Stern Prize from The American Poetry Review. His translation of The Popol Vuh was named one of the New York Times’ best poetry books of 2018. His most recent collection Cloudwatcher was published by Copper Canyon Press.
This event is free and open to the public. Made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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