The Poet’s Voice: Readings of New Work by Michael Hettich, Beth Ann Fennelly, Sandra Beasley and Pablo Medina
Sunday, Nov. 20, 12:30 p.m., Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Michael Hettich
In his poetry collection, The Animals Beyond Us ($13.95), Michael Hettich, using natural imagery and the disjunctive ease of jazz, imagines a way through isolation, longing, and the haunting unexplained loss of his father. Hettich is the author of 13 previous books and chapbooks of poetry. He also contributed the foreword to I'm the One With the Blue Cap On (Rock Press, $15.00), a posthumous collection of Jeffrey Knapp's poems, edited by John Dufresne.
Beth Ann Fennelly
Sexy, funny, and dead-on, Beth Ann Fennelly crafts perfectly metered lines and quick-turn stanzas steeped in the blues and rock and roll, in her collection Unmentionable: Poems (W.W. Norton, $13.95). Fennelly is the author of Open House and Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother.
Sandra Beasley
In Sandra Beasley's poetry collection, I Was the Jukebox (Norton, $14.95), animals, flowers and mythological creatures speak their minds in a series of tell-it-like-it-is soliloquies, illustrating a complex and imaginative landscape in which, according to the poet Marie Howe, “desire pushes defeat against a wall, and the spirit climbs up from underground.” Beasley is also the author of the memoir and cultural history, Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (Crown, $23.00). Like millions of other Americans, Beasly suffers from food allergies so severe, she dubbed herself "Allergy Girl." With candor, wit, and a journalist’s curiosity, Sandra draws on her own experiences while covering the scientific, cultural, and sociological terrain of allergies.
Pablo Medina
In Pablo Medina's sixth poetry collection, The Man Who Wrote on Water (Hanging Loose Press, $18.00) he wrestles with love, God, the city, and the ever-present island of his birth, Cuba. Medina's poetry and prose have been widely published in periodicals and anthologies in the United States and abroad and he has received many awards, among them fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. Medina is also a novelist, translator, and essayist. His previous works include, The Cigar Roller, Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood, and The Floating Island. Of his writing, the Library Journal writes, "Medina writes with exquisite detail."
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
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