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 […]
Ada Limón returns to the Miami Book Fair to celebrate her new appointment as the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and The Hurting Kind, an astonishing collection about interconnectedness between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves. What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and […]
La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami, el Instituto Cultural de México y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan al HOMENAJE A CARLOS FUENTES. Conversación entre la Directora del Instituto Cultural de México, la ministra y artista plástica ADRIANA TORRES SÁNCHEZ y […]
Click here to register in advance and receive your link Join us for an unforgettable virtual conversation featuring the 2021 honorees of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award. This special conversation will feature authors Caleb Azumah Nelson, Dantiel W. Moniz, Nathan Harris, Lee Lai and Claire Luchette, and will be moderated by Natalie […]
For a long time, the term “Haitian music” mostly referred to several styles, including roots music and konpa. In the past few years, however, rap kreyòl and reggae have gained in popularity, with artists using these genres to denounce the injustices that exist in the country. This panel answers the question: With so many influences […]
Visit https://www.facebook.com/MiamiBookFair/live_videos to watch live. This year, we celebrate in memoriam the 100th birthday of two Haitian literary masters: Jacques Stephen Alexis and Émile Célestin Mégie. More than just a brilliant intellectual, Alexis was also an active participant in the social and political debates of his time; born in April 1922, he’s believed to have been killed […]
Join us for a virtual presentation celebrating the launch of In My Ear, Your Voice Still Flickering // Bên tai tôi, giọng người vẫn chờn vờn, a special-edition three-volume zine featuring contemporary Vietnamese literature and art. Vietnamese writers based across Vietnam and around the world contributed fiction and poetry in English or Vietnamese, along with […]
“Poesía a dos voces” con los escritores salvadoreños Roxana Méndez y Jorge Galán. En un mismo espacio, dos poetas comparten sus versos y conversan sobre algunas claves de sus obras.
RSVP here for keynote “I began to record our family history…thinking that if I bridged the gap between the past and the present, I could fill the void between my parents and me.” —Thi Bui in The Best We Could Do Join us for a virtual talk and Q&A with this year’s Big Read featured […]
Books & Books, Miami Book Fair and Independent Bookstores across the U.S. present… A Virtual Evening with ELIZABETH ALEXANDER on The Trayvon Generation *Named one of TIME magazine’s Most Anticipated Titles of 2022* From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art […]
Una tertulia literaria guiada. Embriaga a tu editor interno y ¡exprésate con libertad desde tu casa! Así es como funciona: te damos un tema, escribes durante diez minutos. Si quieres, compartes el texto con el resto de los participantes. Hacemos una pausa para leer los textos e intercambiar opiniones mientras te tomas una copa en […]
Books & Books, Miami Book Fair and Independent Bookstores across the U.S. present… A Virtual Evening with AZAR NAFISI IN CONVERSATION WITH JACKI LYDEN on Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature […]