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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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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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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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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 Alexandria Hall on Field Music: Poems\, in conversation with the judge who selected her manuscript\, Rosanna Warren\, So Forth: Poems. \nField Music explores the boundaries and limits of language\, place\, and the self\, as well as the complicated space between safety and danger\, intimacy and isolation\, playfulness and seriousness\, home and away. With a keen eye for the importance of place\, Hall shows us daily life in rural Vermont\, illuminating the beauty and difficulty inherent in the dichotomies of human language and experience. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/2019-national-poetry-series-winners-3/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation
DESCRIPTION: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\, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog\, discovers the original way to eat a banana\, meets an Irish spider\, and even invites us to his own funeral. Sensitive to the wonders of being alive as well as the thrill of mortality\, Whale Day builds on and amplifies Collins’ reputation as one of America’s most interesting and durable poets. \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/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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SUMMARY:A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Campbell McGrath\, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems. \nIn Summer Snow: New Poems\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Robert Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-u-s-poet-laureate-in-conversation-4/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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UID:6747-1605553200-1605639599@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:Panel: The Fight for Justice & Truth
DESCRIPTION:Grades 9 – 12 \nIntroduced by the Miami-Dade County Teen Court. \nPunching the Air\, a novel-in-verse by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam\, tells the story of Amal Shahid\, who has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school\, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night\, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Suddenly\, at just 16 years old\, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words\, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? \nIn Nic Stone’s Dear Justyce\, Vernell LaQuan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights. Years later\, though\, Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University … and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center. Through a series of flashbacks\, vignettes\, and letters to Justyce – the protagonist of Dear Martin – Quan’s story takes form. Troubles at home and misunderstandings at school give rise to police encounters and tough decisions. But then there’s a dead cop and a weapon with Quan’s prints on it. What leads a bright kid down a road to a murder charge? Not even Quan is sure. \nFREE bonus download: Punching the Air Educators’ Guide \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/panel-the-fight-for-justice-truth/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Young Adult Books
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SUMMARY:Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice
DESCRIPTION:Grades 3 – 7 \nIntroduced by Cierra Bragan\, Miami Mom Collective \nWoke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice is a collection of poems by Mahogany L. Browne\, Olivia Gatwood\, and Elizabeth Acevedo that reflects the joy and passion in the fight for social justice\, tackling topics from discrimination and empathy to acceptance and speaking out. The authors’ hope is to inspire kids to stay woke and become a new generation of activists. With a special foreword by Jason Reynolds. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/woke-a-young-poets-guide-to-justice/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Children's + Teens,Children’s Alley Online,Middle Grade Books,Poetry
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UID:5741-1605553200-1605639599@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:Jorie Graham: A Reading From Runaway: New Poems
DESCRIPTION:In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection Runaway\, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious\, but perhaps love is not? Keeping pace with the desperate runaway of climate change\, social disruption\, our new mass migrations\, she struggles to reimagine a habitable present – a now – in which we might endure\, wary\, undaunted\, ever-inventive\, “counting silently towards infinity.” Graham’s essential voice guides us fluently “as we pass here now into the next-on world\,” what future we have surging powerfully through these pages\, where the poet implores us “to the last be human.” \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/jorie-graham-a-reading-from-runaway-new-poems/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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UID:5719-1605553200-1605639599@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship
DESCRIPTION:In Ariel Francisco’s Miami\, invasive lionfish are sympathetic creatures\, the beach succumbs to sea-level rise\, and “305 till I die” is a cry for help. The speakers in these hilarious and melancholy poems depict a rich and varied emotional landscape that mirrors that of the state they long to leave\, dead or alive. They imagine themselves standing on ocean garbage patches\, contemplate the crabgrass on traffic medians\, and envision the new beauty of a submerged Miami Beach: “Famed art deco replaced by fire coral / and colorful parrot fish\, neon lights / restored by pulsating swarms of moon / jellyfish\, lit up like a Saturday night.” In one moment the strange becomes familiar\, only to become strange again in the next stanza. Taking inspiration from Campbell McGrath and Richard Blanco\, among others\, Francisco’s second book of poems\, A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship\, deals with climate change and the absurdities and difficulties of being a millennial Latinx in the Sunshine State. \nModerated by Ryan Rivas\, publisher of Burrow Press; with translator José Nicolás Cabrera-Schneider. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-sinking-ship-is-still-a-ship/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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UID:5708-1605553200-1605639599@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:Two Poets on Reaching Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:Guillotine: Poems traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants\, the grief of loss\, betrayal’s lingering scars\, the border itself – great distances in which violence and yearning find roots. Through the voices of undocumented immigrants\, border patrol agents\, and scorned lovers\, award-winning poet Eduardo C. Corral writes dramatic portraits of contradiction\, survival\, and a deeply human\, relentless interiority. With extraordinary lyric imagination\, these poems wonder about being unwanted or renounced. What do we do with unrequited love? Is it with or without it that we would waste away? \nA name for the people of Honduras\, Catrachos: Poems is a term of solidarity and resilience. In these unflinching\, riveting poems\, Roy G. Guzmán reaches across borders – between life and death and between countries – invoking the voices of the lost. Part immigration narrative\, part elegy\, and part queer coming-of-age story\, Catrachos finds its own religion in fantastic figures such as the X-Men\, pop singers\, and the “Queerodactyl\,” which is imagined in a series of poems as a dinosaur sashaying in the shadow of an oncoming comet\, insistent on surviving extinction. With exceptional energy\, humor\, and inventiveness\, Guzmán’s debut is a devastating display of lyrical and moral complexity – an introduction to an immediately captivating\, urgently needed voice. \nSponsored by: \n \nIn partnership with
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/two-poets-on-reaching-across-borders/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,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 Benjamin Garcia on Thrown in the Throat\, in conversation with the judge who selected his manuscript\, Kazim Ali\, The Voice of Sheila Chandra. \nIn a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times\, Garcia delves with both English and Spanish into how one survives a country’s long love affair with anti-immigrant cruelty. Rendering a family working to the very end to hold each other\, he writes the kind of family you both survive and survive with. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/2019-national-poetry-series-winners-2/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:A Reading: World of Wonders: In Praise of Nature
DESCRIPTION:The collection of personal essays in award-winning poet Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, and Other Astonishments – lushly illustrated by Fumi Nakamura – together form an enchanting and introspective narrative of a life’s journey buoyed by connection to animals and earth. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-reading-world-of-wonders-in-praise-nature/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Nonfiction,Poetry
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Poetry & Memoir: Walt Whitman in My Life & Rocket Fantastic
DESCRIPTION:Fellow poet-memoirists sit down to talk about their latest work. \nIn What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life\, Mark Doty effortlessly blends biography\, criticism\, and memoir in what the New York Times described as “an incisive\, personal meditation” on the Leaves of Grass author. In her collection Rocket Fantastic\, Gabrielle Calvocoressi – senior poetry editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books – blurs the real and the imaginary as she reinvents the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems. \n  \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-poetry-memoir-walt-whitman-in-my-life-rocket-fantastic/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Nonfiction,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Jubi Arriola-Headley: A Reading From original kink
DESCRIPTION:In original kink\, Jubi Arriola-Headley explores kink as mythscape of promised pleasure\, lush and lustral\, kink as Godzilla’s desire for softness and the boy gone “starburst\,” kink as “the sun-soaked / surface of impossible kick\,” as “something loose enough / to dance in.” At once soliloquy\, praise song\, and injunction\, original kink divines the brutal offices and beauteous comforts of syntax\, street corners\, and superheroes as sites for Black and queer (un)becomings. Accompanied by Eve\, Isaac Newton\, and a dizzying cast of daddies\, Arriola-Headley writes into pleasure’s beyond\, crafting poems that “glutton at spring’s source\, / ever lovedrunk on / the insistent gush” of the world and create a dazzling\, multiple “we.” \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/jubi-arriola-headley-a-reading-from-original-kink/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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