Live Q&A with Chantel Acevedo Thursday, November 19 @ 5:30 p.m. EST! Grades 3 – 7 Moderated by Freda Mosquera, community library manager at Broward County Library. Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse is Chantel Acevedo's action-packed fantasy duology about a Cuban American girl who discovers that she’s one of the nine Muses of Greek mythology. […]
In The Greenway Imperative: Connecting Communities and Landscapes for a Sustainable Future, Charles Flink argues that open green spaces are increasingly critical. They serve as essential infrastructure with many benefits, including boosting the economies of cities and towns. He has plenty to chat about with Meg Daly, founder and president of Friends of The Underline, […]
Join artist, educator, and curator Barry Fellman; Richard Florida, urbanist scholar and author of The Rise of the Creative Class; Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Miami Light Project writer-in-residence and arts journalist Jordan Levin, whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Miami Herald. […]
At a time in which many poems feel like sophisticated parlor games, Memory’s Blue Sedan by Jesse Millner brings us back to the ground, the soil of true poetry, in which living things grow and flourish in all their various complexities. His haunted and haunting poems are awesome in their commingling of autobiography, history, and […]
Teresa María Rojas presenta su poemario, en conversación con Rosie Inguanzo. Como cada año, la Feria del Libro de Miami se complace en presentar las novedades literarias de poetas y narradores cubanos que producen su obra fuera de la isla. En esta edición hemos invitado a cinco poetas y a un narrador que residen en […]
Nancy Pearl on The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books They Love, Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library: A Novel; Ray Baker, Director, Miami-Dade County Public Library System; moderated by Audrey Chapuis, Executive Director, American Library in Paris. Sponsored by
Special introduction by Natalie Satakovski, 2020 Gulf Stream Literary Magazine editor-in-chief. Gulf Stream Literary Magazine champions vibrant and eclectic literature and art. Based in Miami, it publishes emerging and established writers from the USA and beyond. Join contributors Melissa Goode, whose work has also appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly and Best Australian Short Stories; Sara McNally, […]
Event starts Tuesday, November 17 @ 8:30 p.m. EST Finalistas de Cuentomanía 2020 Gloria Noriega, Pedro Medina León, José Ignacio Chascas Valenzuela y Gastón Virkel presentan a los finalistas de la edición 2020. Finalistas de Cuentomanía 2020, con Pedro Galván, Javier Lentino, Daniel Reschigna y Diana Rodríguez Gloria Noriega, fundadora/productora ejecutiva, Pedro Medina León, fundador/productor […]
Grades 3 – 7 Moderated by Ellen Book, children’s librarian at Miami-Dade Public Library System. Inspired by real figures in American history, Katherine Factor and Kyandreia Jones present two new books in the interactive Choose Your Own Adventure: Spies gamebook series, putting you in the shoes of Civil War heroine Mary Bowser (Jones), or America’s […]
The Burning Where Breath Used to Be by Jen Karetnick is an all-consuming trek through a distinct sensibility – nothing escapes its notice, and nothing fails to be fuel for her fires. These poems witness, converse, debate, and reckon with the world in daring, inventive, and prescient ways. Sponsored by
Billy Collins’ new collection, Whale Day and Other Poems, brings together more than fifty poems and showcases his deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made him one of our country’s most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination, yet stay grounded in the familiar, […]
Editores y autores de la escena literaria en castellano en los Estados Unidos nos ofrecen su visión y análisis, comparten las sinopsis -elevator pitch- de sus nuevas obras. Jesús Barquet presenta Manifiesto inacabado de la hegemonía, nomenclatura y nomenklatura cultural del nuevo cuño y coña (Bund Der Gerechten), Pablo Brescia presenta “Nuestras imposibilidades”, incluido en […]