Between the Arches: A Featured Poetry Reading

Tune into an evening of live poetry with Book + Bottle on Wednesday November 12th from 6pm-7pm. Poets Erin L. McCoy, Asa Drake, and Letisia Cruz will read their work and talk through their inspiration and process. It's sure to be the coziest hour of your week!

Every wine, beer, coffee, and tea purchase enters you into a raffle to win an Advance Reading Copy. We can't wait to see you there!

More About the Poets:

Erin L. McCoy’s debut novel, Underlake, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2026. Her poetry collection, Wrecks, will be published by Noemi Press in 2025 and was a finalist for the Noemi Book Award. Erin’s work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Pleiades, Conjunctions, and other publications, and she was a finalist for the Missouri Review’s Miller Audio Prize. Erin is an assistant poetry editor at Narrative and a proofreader at Penguin Random House. She holds an MFA in creative writing and an MA in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Washington. Her website is erinlmccoy.com. 

Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. She is the author of Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026) and Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award. A National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Kenyon Review Residential Writers Workshop, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Storyknife, Sundress Publications, Tin House and Idyllwild Arts. Her poems are published or forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Poetry and The Slowdown Podcast. A former librarian, she currently works as a teaching artist.

Letisia Cruz is a Cuban American writer and artist. She is the author of Bigwig's Illustrated Guide to Birds (Tolsun Books, 2024), Migrations & Other Exiles (winner of the 2022 Idaho Prize for Poetry, Lost Horse Press, 2023), and The Lost Girls Book of Divination (Tolsun Books, 2018). She is the recipient of a 2022 artist grant from the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance and was selected as a 2022 Dali Dozen Emerging Artist for her project Rituales: An Exploration of Faith in the Caribbean. Her writing and artwork have appeared in Poetry Daily, [PANK], Ninth Letter, The Acentos Review, Gulf Stream, Saw Palm, Third Coast, and Duende, among others. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and lives in Saint Petersburg, Florida with her partner, their three cats, and several dozen plants.