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SUMMARY:2020 National Poetry Series Winner Trevor Ketner
DESCRIPTION: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 of poems written in Spanish. This conversation features Trevor Ketner on [WHITE]\, in conversation with the judge who selected their manuscript\, Forrest Gander\, Twice Alive. [WHITE] is a book born from obsessions – Rauschenberg’s art and tarot – laying them over one another to tease out a critique of whiteness in the arts that reflects on how we think of whiteness in America. Here is an examination of queer bodies\, Rauschenberg traveling toward\, through\, and away from infamous lovers in pursuit of art and selfhood\, while Ketner exposes the insidiousness of whiteness and its inescapable role in American history and art. With a special introduction by Daniel Halpern\, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. \nSponsored by                                                                                               
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/2020-national-poetry-series-winner-trevor-ketner/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:On Demand,Poetry
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SUMMARY:FSG Celebrates 75 Years of Poetry: Frank Bidart & Yusef Komunyakaa
DESCRIPTION:In Against Silence: Poems\, Frank Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa\, but a repeating\, refining story of love and hate\, of words spoken and cruelties enacted. Moving among the dead and the living\, the figures of his life and of his past\, Bidart calls forth – with nothing settled and nothing forgotten\, we must speak. Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems\, 2001-2021 brings together selected poems from the past 20 years of Yusef Komunyakaa’s work\, as well as new poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner. Komunyakaa’s masterful\, concise verse conjures arresting images of peace and war\, the natural power of the earth and of love\, his childhood in the American South and his service in Vietnam\, the ugly violence of racism in America\, and the meaning of power and morality. Moderated by Jonathan Galassi\, president of Farrar\, Straus and Giroux and editor of The FSG Poetry Anthology (75th Anniversary). \nSponsored by                                                                                               
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/fsg-celebrates-75-years-of-poetry-frank-bidart-yusef-komunyakaa/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Most Watched Poetry 2021,On Demand,Poetry,Staff Poetry Picks
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SUMMARY:A Reading & Conversation With Ana Castillo
DESCRIPTION:In My Book of the Dead: New Poems\, essayist\, editor\, activist\, novelist\, and translator Ana Castillo returns to her first literary love\, poetry\, and unflinchingly addresses some of the bitter realities of the past decade: the environmental crisis\, COVID-19\, children in detention camps\, and Trump’s presidency. Moderated by author Michael Torres\, An Incomplete List of Names: Poems. \nSponsored by                                                                                               
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-reading-conversation-with-ana-castillo/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:On Demand,Poetry
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SUMMARY:A New Reckoning: Two Graywolf Poets on Spirituality\, Survival\, & the Second Book
DESCRIPTION:The Renunciations: Poems is a book of resilience\, survival\, and the journey to radically shift one’s sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child\, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating confrontations with what a person can bear\, with how families harm themselves. In Yellow Rain: Poems\, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United States abandoned them at the end of its war in Vietnam\, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos starting in the mid-1970s. This substance\, known as “yellow rain\,” caused severe illnesses and thousands of deaths. Integrating archival research and declassified documents\, Yellow Rain calls out the erasure of a history\, the silencing of a people who at the time lacked the capacity and resources to defend and represent themselves. In poems that sing and lament\, that contend and question\, Vang restores a vital narrative in danger of being lost\, and brilliantly explores what it means to have access to the truth and how marginalized groups are often forbidden that access. Moderated by Carlene Sawyer\, executive director of the Dranoff 2 Piano Foundation. \nSponsored by                                                                                               \n \n  \n  \nIn partnership with
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-new-reckoning-two-graywolf-poets-on-spirituality-survival-the-second-book/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Most Watched Poetry 2021,On Demand,Poetry,Staff Poetry Picks
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SUMMARY:2020 National Poetry Series Winner W.J. Herbert
DESCRIPTION: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 of poems written in Spanish. This conversation features W.J. Herbert on Dear Specimen: Poems\, in conversation with the judge who selected her manuscript\, Kwame Dawes\, Nebraska: Poems. Juxtaposing a profound sense of intimacy with the vastness of geological time\, Dear Specimen is an extended love letter from a dying parent to her daughter\, offering a climate-conscious critique of the human species – our search for meaning and intimacy\, and our capacity for greed and destruction. With a special introduction by Daniel Halpern\, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. \nSponsored by                                                                                               
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/2020-national-poetry-series-winner-w-j-herbert/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:On Demand,Poetry
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SUMMARY:A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Joy Harjo\, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate\, celebrates the stories of her ancestors and family as well as the influences that shaped her work in Poet Warrior: A Memoir. She returns to the Miami Book Fair to talk about the memoir and her historic three terms as laureate. Presented in partnership with the Library of Congress and O\, Miami and moderated by Robert Casper\, head of Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress. \nSponsored by                                                                                                \n \n  \n  \nIn partnership with \n       
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-u-s-poet-laureate-in-conversation-5/
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CATEGORIES:Most Watched Poetry 2021,Poetry,Staff Poetry Picks
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SUMMARY:Una tarde con Pilar Quintana
DESCRIPTION:This event is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event\, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. \nSpeakers: Pilar Quintana\, Beatriz Mendoza \nEs un gusto para la Feria recibir este año a la narradora y guionista de cine colombiana Pilar Quintana\, ganadora del Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2021\, quien presenta Los abismos\, un relato protagonizado por una niña que asume las revelaciones de su madre y los silencios de su padre para empezar a construir su propio mundo. La autora conversará con la escritora y periodista Beatriz Mendoza. \nCon el apoyo de
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/una-tarde-con-pilar-quintana/
LOCATION:Livestream + In Person
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,IberoAmerican,Live from MDC,Live Streams,Poetry,Women's Equality Day
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SUMMARY:Poesía en español sin fronteras
DESCRIPTION:This event is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event\, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. \nVolvemos a encontrarnos en persona y los invitamos a una cita con la poesía contemporánea. Alejandro Pérez Cortés\, poeta\, narrador y profesor mexicano que reside en Estados Unidos\, ganó el Premio Paz 2020 organizado por la Feria del Libro de Miami y National Poetry Series\, fallado por José Kozer\, y presenta: Ima y Coli son el árbol que nunca fue semilla. Joaquín Badajoz\, miembro correspondiente de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Español (ANLE) ofrece Cántaro\, un poemario experimental que rastrea los orígenes comunes de la poesía y la filosofía. La poeta\, ensayista y crítica de arte Kelly Martínez-Grandal y la poeta\, narradora y editora Claudia Noguera Penso leen poemas de Lo que trae el relámpago\, de Esdras Parra (Venezuela\, 1929-2004)\, una de las voces más significativas de la poesía venezolana del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI. \n  \nEn colaboración con
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/poesia-en-espanol-sin-fronteras/
LOCATION:Livestream + In Person
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,IberoAmerican,Live Streams,Poetry,Staff Poetry Picks 3
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SUMMARY:Jan Beatty: A Reading from The Body Wars: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Live Q&A: Sunday\, November 22 @ 1:00 p.m.\nWhat would it take to be home in one’s body\, to walk around the world as oneself\, knowing the pain within and without us? In The Body Wars\, Jan Beatty boldly answers that question by making a fire map of the body. These roiling poems smack into walls of meditation\, only to slide down the smooth concrete into the flatline of joy. These are vital poems of dimension\, of both psychic and literal travel\, of the elasticity of truth and struggle\, of the daily nature of desire that brings us to our knees—then shotguns us back to the heart’s center. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/jan-beatty-a-reading-from-the-body-wars-poems/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:The Hero’s Journey: Two Poets on Reconfiguring the Lyric
DESCRIPTION:The poems of award-winning poet Yona Harvey’s much anticipated You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love follow an unnamed protagonist on her multidimensional\, Afro-futuristic journey. Her story stretches the boundaries normally constraining a Black female body like hers. Half superhero\, half secret identity\, she encounters side-slipping\, speculative realities testing her in poems that appear like the panels of a comic book. Music directs readers through large and small emotional arcs\, constantly re-troubled by lyric experimentation. Harvey layers her poems with a chorus of women’s voices. Our hero gets captured\, escapes\, scuba dives\, and goes interstellar\, and she emerges on the other end of her journey renewed\, invoking the gods. \nInspired by Albert Camus’s seminal Myth of Sisyphus\, Major Jackson’s fifth volume\, The Absurd Man\, subtly configures the poet as “absurd hero” and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson’s restless\, vulnerable speaker as he ponders creation in the face of meaninglessness\, chronicles an increasingly technological world and the difficulty of social and political unity\, probes a failed marriage\, and grieves his lost mother with a stunning\, lucid lyricism. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/the-heros-journey-two-poets-on-reconfiguring-the-lyric/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Two Poets on Curiosities and Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson’s collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum\, Kimiko Hahn’s 10th collection\, Foreign Bodies\, investigates the grip that seemingly insignificant objects exert on our lives. Itself a cabinet of curiosities\, the collection provokes the same surprise\, wonder\, and pangs of recognition Hahn felt upon opening drawer after drawer of these swallowed and retrieved objects – a radiator key\, a child’s perfect attendance pin\, a mother-of-pearl button. The speaker of these moving poems sees reflections of these items in the heartbreaking detritus of her family home\, and in her long-dead mother’s Japanese jewelry. Foreign Bodies investigates the power of possession\, replete with Hahn’s electric originality and thrilling mastery of ever-changing forms. \nWith irony\, in mourning tinged with eros\, Rosanna Warren\, one of our most extraordinary poets\, blends the personal and the political to meditate on damage\, aging\, and injustice. The poems in So Forth surge back in memory\, pondering guilt and forgiveness. Consciousness flows from singular to plural; identity in these poems does a round dance with other personae\, with formidable women artists of the past in the powerful sequence “Legende of Good Women\,” with pre-Socratic philosophers\, and with lovers\, children\, and strangers – the strangest of whom is the face in the mirror. In response to griefs both historical and contemporary\, So Forth contemplates the quest for the holy and traditions of the sacred. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/two-poets-on-curiosities-and-consciousness/
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CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
DESCRIPTION:African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song is a literary landmark: the biggest\, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published\, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present. Only now\, in the 21st century\, can we fully grasp the breadth and range of African American poetry: a magnificent chorus of voices\, some familiar\, others recently rescued from neglect. Here\, in this unprecedented anthology expertly selected by poet and scholar Kevin Young\, this precious living heritage is revealed in all its power\, beauty\, and multiplicity. \nDiscover\, in these pages\, how an enslaved person like Phillis Wheatley confronted her legal status in verse and how an antebellum activist like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper voiced her own passionate resistance to slavery. Read nuanced\, provocative poetic meditations on identity and self-assertion stretching from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Amiri Baraka to Lucille Clifton and beyond. Experience the transformation of poetic modernism in the works of figures such as Langston Hughes\, Fenton Johnson\, and Jean Toomer. Understand the threads of poetic history – in movements such as the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances\, Black Arts\, Cave Canem\, and the Dark Room Collective – and the complex bonds of solidarity and dialogue among poets across time and place. See how these poets have celebrated their African heritage and connected with other communities in the African Diaspora. Enjoy the varied but distinctly Black music of a tradition that draws deeply from jazz\, hip-hop\, and the rhythms and cadences of the pulpit\, the barbershop\, and the street. And appreciate\, in the anthology’s concluding sections\, why contemporary African American poetry\, amply recognized in recent National Book Awards and Poet Laureates\, is flourishing as never before. Taking the measure of the tradition in a single indispensable volume\, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song sets a new standard for a genuinely deep engagement with Black poetry and its essential expression of American genius. \nModerated by Campbell McGrath\, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/african-american-poetry-250-years-of-struggle-song/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:The U.S. Poet Laureate and the Library of Congress
DESCRIPTION: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 them\, and more. \nSpecial introduction by Robert Casper\, Library of Congress. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/the-u-s-poet-laureate-and-the-library-of-congress/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault\, Empowerment & Healing
DESCRIPTION:Live Q&A: Friday\, November 20 @ 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. EST\nThe 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 for the survivors of the assaults\, and to raise their voices against a culture that has allowed this behavior to continue for too long. \nThe editors of this gender-inclusive anthology asked writers and poets to contribute pieces about what being “grabbed” means to each of them. The result is a collection of emotional works in prose and poetry addressing a range of injustices including all forms of sexual misconduct – from an unwanted caress to rape. The writers represented here have mined their collective experiences to reveal their most vulnerable moments – for some\, these are stories that have never been shared before. In reading this book\, we understand what it means to be “grabbed” emotionally\, psychologically\, and physically. In the aftermath of violation\, we take a moment to hold humanity in our own hands. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/grabbed-poets-writers-on-sexual-assault-empowerment-healing/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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SUMMARY:An Evening With Louise Erdrich & Heid E. Erdrich
DESCRIPTION:  LIVE! Event starts Friday\, November 20 @ 6 p.m. \nTwo sisters present their latest works in a conversation informed by the dynamic of the familiar. \nLouise 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 worst and best impulses of human nature\, that touches upon the very real tragedy of missing Native American women. \nIn her collection of poems Little Big Bully\, Heid E. Erdrich offers personal myth\, American and Native American contexts\, and allegories driven by women’s resistance to narcissists\, stalkers\, and harassers. The collective experience of Indigenous people\, from ecosystem collapse due to the near-extinction of bison to the present epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women\, underlie her prose. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/an-evening-with-louise-heid-e-erdrich/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Fiction,Nonfiction,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield: A Reading From Ledger: Poems
DESCRIPTION: Live: Friday\, November 20 @ 5:00 p.m. EST with Q&A immediately following \nLedger: 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”)\, Hirshfield’s poems inscribe a registry\, both personal and communal\, of our present-day predicaments. They call us to deepened dimensions of thought\, feeling\, and action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering\, acutely and tenderly\, the crises of refugees\, justice\, and climate. They consider “the minimum mass for a whale\, for a language\, an ice cap\,” recognize the intimacies of connection\, and meditate upon doubt and contentment\, a library book with previously dog-eared corners\, the hunger for surprise\, and the debt we owe this world’s continuing beauty. Hirshfield’s signature alloy of fact and imagination\, clarity and mystery\, inquiry\, observation\, and embodied emotion has created a book of indispensable poems by a “modern master” (Washington Post). \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/jane-hirshfield-a-reading-from-ledger-poems/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Carol Frost: A Reading From Alias City
DESCRIPTION: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 rich\, dense\, and passionate. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/carol-frost-a-reading-from-alias-city/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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UID:5885-1605812400-1605898799@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:2019 National Poetry Series Winners
DESCRIPTION:Special introduction by Daniel Halpern\, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. \nThe 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 of poems written in Spanish. This conversation features Michael Torres on An Incomplete List of Names: Poems\, in conversation with the judge who selected his manuscript\, Raquel Salas Rivera\, Lo terciario/The Tertiary. \nWho do we belong to? This is the question Torres ponders as he explores the roles that names\, hometown\, language\, and others’ perceptions each play on our understanding of ourselves in An Incomplete List of Names: Poems. More than a boyhood ballad or a coming-of-age story\, this collection illuminates the artist’s struggle to make sense of the disparate identities others have forced upon him. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/2019-national-poetry-series-winners-5/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation
DESCRIPTION: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. Scott Momaday\, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets\, ranging from Eleazar\, a 17th-century Native student at Harvard\, to Jake Skeets\, a young Diné poet born in 1991\, and including renowned writers such as Luci Tapahonso\, Natalie Diaz\, Layli Long Soldier\, and Ray Young Bear. When the Light of the World Was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature\, without which no study of American poetry is complete. \nModerated by Campbell McGrath\, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems. \nSponsored by
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-u-s-poet-laureate-in-conversation-3/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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UID:22259-1605744000-1605830399@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:John Murillo: Poetry and the battle for racial equity
DESCRIPTION: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 in a time of crisis. \n This program is part of The Future of Democracy X Miami Book Fair series\, presented in partnership with Knight Foundation.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/john-murillo-poetry-and-the-battle-for-racial-equity/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Nikky Finney: Love amid crisis
DESCRIPTION: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. \n This program is part of The Future of Democracy X Miami Book Fair series\, presented in partnership with Knight Foundation.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/nikky-finney-love-amid-crisis/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Jesse Millner: A Reading From Memory’s Blue Sedan
DESCRIPTION: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 references to the customs and beliefs in which his mind and heart came to consciousness. Many of the poems in this book feel like living beings\, organic in their form and painfully honest in their revelations. Memory’s Blue Sedan speaks to both the heart and to the mind – indeed it speaks to the soul. It is a courageous book. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/jesse-millner-a-reading-from-memorys-blue-sedan/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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SUMMARY:John Murillo: A Reading From Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
DESCRIPTION: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 recalls a long-ago mentor who pushed the speaker “to become something unbreakable.” The presence of these and poetic forebears – Gil Scott-Heron and Yusef Komunyakaa – provide a context for strength in the face of danger and anger. At the heart of the book is a sonnet crown triggered by the shooting deaths of three Brooklyn men that becomes an extended meditation on the history of racial injustice and the notion of payback as a form of justice. “Maybe memory is the only home / you get\,” Murillo writes\, “and rage\, where you/first learn how fragile the axis/upon which everything tilts.” \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/john-murillo-a-reading-from-kontemporary-amerikan-poetry/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution
DESCRIPTION: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\, queer\, Indigenous\, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism\, dictatorships\, and economic inequality. Within this momentous collection\, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity\, place\, and belonging\, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion. \nIncluded in English translation alongside their original language\, the 54 poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of translation as much as the act of resistance. An all-star team of translators\, including former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera along with young\, emerging talent\, have made many of the poems available for the first time to an English-speaking audience. Urgent\, timely\, and absolutely essential\, these poems inspire us all to embrace our most fearless selves and unite against all forms of tyranny and oppression. \nModerated by poet and translator JV Portela. \nSee below for a video of readings from contributors and a special introduction by Julia Alvarez. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/resistencia-poems-of-protest-and-revolution/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:2019 National Poetry Series Winners
DESCRIPTION:Special introduction by Daniel Halpern\, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. \nThe 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 of poems written in Spanish. This conversation features Diane Louie on Fractal Shores: Poems\, in conversation with the judge who selected her manuscript\, Sherod Santos\, Square Inch Hours: Poems. \nCarlo Rovelli\, Italian physicist\, says that “the world is not a collection of things\, it is a collection of events.” Louie thinks of prose poems as little events. They are happening and happenings. They draw on experience\, image\, metaphor\, and all the properties of language to create little worlds-in-motion\, spinning while orbiting and actively shifting our point of view. Fractal Shores: Poems marries the inquiries of science and spiritual longing to illuminate what they – and we – have in common: a desire to understand our presence in a universe that does not yield ultimate answers. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/2019-national-poetry-series-winners-4/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:In Every Day We Get More Illegal\, a collection of poems written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate\, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness\, and later\, in quiet moments of reflection\, coalesce into an urgent\, trenchant\, and yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges\, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets\, the lethal border game that separates and divides\, and then: a shift of register\, a leap for peace and a view onto the possibility of unity. Every Day We Get More Illegal is a jolt to the conscience – filled with the multiple powers of the many voices and many textures of every day in America. \nModerated by Campbell McGrath\, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-u-s-poet-laureate-in-conversation-2/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Panel: Gulf Stream Literary Magazine Celebrates 25 Issues Online
DESCRIPTION:Special introduction by Natalie Satakovski\, 2020 Gulf Stream Literary Magazine editor-in-chief. \nGulf 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\, managing editor for the Columbia Poetry Review; Stacy Boe Miller\, whose most recent work can be found in Mid-American Review; Emily Mohn-Slate\, winner of the 2019 New American Poetry Prize; Fredric Sinclair\, winner of a Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Writing Fellowship and a Vermont Studio Center residency; and Keith S. Wilson\, whose Field Notes on Ordinary Love was named a Best New Poetry Book of 2019 by the New York Times. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/panel-gulf-stream-literary-magazine-celebrates-25-issues-online/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Fiction,Here In Florida,Nonfiction,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Jen Karetnick: A Reading From The Burning Where Breath Used to Be
DESCRIPTION: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. \nSponsored by
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/jen-karetnick-a-reading-from-the-burning-where-breath-used-to-be/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Kazim Ali: A Reading From The Voice of Sheila Chandra
DESCRIPTION:Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome\, the poems in Kazim Ali’s The Voice of Sheila Chandra bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival\, but of persistence\, as this part research-based\, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/kazim-ali-a-reading-from-the-voice-of-sheila-chandra/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Black Futurity: A Magnificent Anthem
DESCRIPTION:Homie: Poems is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends\, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity\, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence\, xenophobia\, and disparity\, and in a body defined by race\, queerness\, and diagnosis\, it can be hard to survive\, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up\, or a shout comes up to the window\, and family – blood and chosen – arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary\, part bright elegy\, part war cry\, Homie: Poems is the exuberant new book written for Smith and for Smith’s friends\, and for you and for yours. \nDefinition of finna\, created by author Nate Marshall: fin·na /ˈfinə/ contraction: (1) going to; intending to [rooted in African American Vernacular English] (2) eye dialect spelling of “fixing to” (3) Black possibility; Black futurity; Blackness as tomorrow. Marshall’s poems consider the brevity and disposability of Black lives and other oppressed people in our current era of emboldened white supremacy\, and the use of the Black vernacular in America’s vast reserve of racial and gendered epithets. Finna: Poems explores the erasure of peoples in the American narrative; asks how gendered language can provoke violence; and finally\, how the Black vernacular expands our notions of possibility\, giving us a new language of hope. \nModerated by Dr. William Hobbs\, English department chair at Florida Memorial University. \nSponsored by: \n \n 
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/black-futurity-a-magnificent-anthem/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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