The Poet and the Poem 2021-22 Series

Featured Didi Menendez

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Didi (Dulce) Menendez is a Cuban-born American publisher and digital artist. She is the Marketing Director and Curator at 33 Contemporary in Chicago. Besides 33 Contemporary, she has curated group shows at Bernarducci.Meisel Gallery, NY, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, the MEAM in Barcelona, Sirona Fine Art Gallery in Florida, Flinders Lane Gallery in Australia, RJD Gallery in New York, and at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago. She is considered a pioneer of the online poetry publishing arena since the last century. Her publications have been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses, and Best American Poetry series. She runs a very active figurative art community at PoetsArtists (www.poetsandartists.com). A selection of her publications are archived at the United States of America Library of Congress and with the Peregrine Collection a payload scheduled to be archived on the moon by Dr. Samuel Peralta.

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