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ON FAME & FRIENDSHIP: A POETRY READING & CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD BLANCO & CAMPBELL MCGRATH

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Join us for a special conversation with Miami-Dade County Poet Laureate RICHARD BLANCO and his friend, mentor, and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow CAMPBELL MCGRATH. In Homeland of My Body: New & Selected Poems, Blanco has collected more than 100 poems from his previous books that represent his evolution as a writer grappling with identity, love, the …

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THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

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A special event featuring many of this year’s honorees, including NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH, AALIYAH BILAL, ERIN BOW, KENNETH M. CADOW, LIZZIE DAVIS, OLIVER DE LA PAZ, ELIOT DUNCAN, JONATHAN EIG, CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA, HUDA FAHMY, STÊNIO GARDEL, ANNELYSE GELMAN, TANIA JAMES, MICHAEL G. LONG, DAN NOTT, JOSÉ OLIVAREZ, PRUDENCE PEIFFER, JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS, MONA SUSAN …

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Sandra Cisneros & Manuel Muñoz: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Woman Without Shame: Poems is Sandra Cisneros’ first book of poetry in 28 years. The collection comprises dozens of never-before-seen poems and includes songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a …

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Robert Pinsky With Campbell McGrath: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet, Robert Pinsky, a U.S. poet laureate (1997-2000) and Pulitzer Prize finalist, traces the roots of his poetry to the voices of his boyhood neighborhood, Long Branch – a historic but run-down New Jersey shore …

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“Caribbean Myths & Realities”: Jasmine Sealy, Opal Palmer Adisa, & Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

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Four Caribbean writers discuss the unreality of reality and the truth of the fantastic in their work. Jasmine Sealy (Barbados) on The Island of Forgetting, Opal Palmer Adisa (Jamaica) on The Storyteller’s Return: Story Poems, and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Trinidad) on When We Were Birds: A Novel. Moderating is Myriam J. A. Chancy (Haiti), author …

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National Book Foundation Presents: The 2022 National Book Awards

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. The National Book Foundation presents the 2022 National Book Award longlisters, finalists, and winners, in an annual super-sized showcase of readings and conversation, moderated by Ruth Dickey, executive director of the National Book Foundation. Featuring Fatimah Asghar, Derrick Barnes, Isaac Blum, …

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Jorie Graham on [To] the Last [Be] Human: Poetry

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​​ The Last Human collects four extraordinary poetry books – Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway – by Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, presenting a body of work that stands as a “lyric record” of the calamitous decades that began the 21st century. To read these four books in a single volume is to experience vastly complex …

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2021 National Poetry Series Winner No’u Revilla

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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 to award the Paz Prize in Poetry, which ensures bilingual publication for a book …

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“Restlessness, Reflection & Revolution”: Dana Levin, Jana Prikryl & Jenny Xie

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Dana Levin’s Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out of the old lyric, working in a variety of forms, calling on beloveds and ancestors, great thinkers and religions – convened by her own spun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality. In Midwood: Poems, Jana Prikryl probes the notion of midlife, …

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2021 National Poetry Series Winner Alexandra Lytton Regalado

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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 to award the Paz Prize in Poetry, which ensures bilingual publication for a book …

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Maya Abu Al-Hayyat on You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems

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Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat. Art. Garlic. Taxis. Sleepy soldiers at checkpoints. The smell of trash on a winter street, before “our wild …

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2021 National Poetry Series Winner Shelley Puhak

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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 to award the Paz Prize in Poetry, which ensures bilingual publication for a book …

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Sharon Olds on Balladz: Poetry

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"At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror," writes Sharon Olds in Balladz, a self-scouring, exhilarating volume which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at its center boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors Emily Dickinson: “she was our Girl – our Woman – / Man enough …

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