Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden sits down with Campbell McGrath, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems, to kick off Miami Book Fair’s 2020 series, “A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation.” They will share what the position of the U.S. Poet Laureate is and does, how the Library and Librarian of Congress work with […]
Live Q&A: Friday, November 20 @ 7:00 - 7:30 p.m. EST The 21st century has brought unprecedented evidence of the prevalence of sexual abuse and assault. Finally, the world is beginning to recognize the depraved and hypocritical actions of celebrities, politicians, CEOs, and Hollywood moguls. People everywhere are speaking out in outrage, to express support […]
LIVE! Event starts Friday, November 20 @ 6 p.m. Two sisters present their latest works in a conversation informed by the dynamic of the familiar. Louise Erdrich’s novel The Night Watchman explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity. It's a fictional world populated by memorable characters forced to grapple with the […]
Live: Friday, November 20 @ 5:00 p.m. EST with Q&A immediately following Ledger: Poem‘s pages hold the most important and masterly work yet by Jane Hirshfield, one of our most celebrated contemporary poets. From the already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance (“Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw”), […]
There is something astonishing about the ardor with which Carol Frost articulates and sings the sorrows of our disappearing in her newest poetry collection, Alias City. There's something so wise in the song, in the music of her tough, clear seeing. Her poems have a fierce, unswerving purity of purpose and design, their embodying language […]
Special introduction by Daniel Halpern, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair […]
Joy Harjo on When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry is a landmark collection celebrating the Indigenous peoples of North America – the first poets of this country – whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. […]
Future of Democracy X Miami Book Fair: Artistry has been interwoven into demanding social justice throughout American history. John Murillo, author of Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, joins Knight Foundation’s Sam Gill to speak of his own personal account of weaving artistry and equality, how his poetry reflects the poor treatment of Black and Latino people in America, and an artist’s role […]
Future of Democracy X Miami Book Fair: Poet Nikki Finney sits down with Knight Foundation’s Sam Gill for a candid discussion of Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems and Artifacts, an intimate reflection on what her poetry and work mean to her, and what Black artistry means to our democracy. This program is part of The Future of Democracy X Miami […]
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 […]
John Murillo’s second book, Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos, and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a father’s fists; a workout at an iron gym […]
With a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution, edited by Mark Eisner and Tina Escaja, is an extraordinary collection, rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today. The poets of Resistencia explore feminist, […]