In Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt, Chris Hedges investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, and resistance.

Sponsored by The Women's Fund. Gail Sheehy, the author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with Daring: My Passages: A Memoir — an inspirational chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking “girl” journalist in the 1960s. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner offers a lifetime’s worth of spiritual food for thought, pragmatic advice, inspiration for a more ...

Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, & New is the quirky love child of award-winning poets Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, which exploits and explores feminism, gender, sex, witches, religion, and Olive Oyl. Ed Skoog’s latest collection of Poetry Rough Day finds its essential unity in a fixation on American events and landscapes—from Yellowstone and New Orleans to Kansas and the Pacific Northwest. ...

In his moving and strikingly honest memoir, Lord Fear, Lucas Mann interrogates the loss of an older brother to a heroin overdose, and grapples with the frustrating fragility of memory in attempting to understand a man he deeply adored, but hardly got the chance to know.  I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, blistering and deeply ...

Sponsored by Liebe and Seth Gadinsky. Drawing on his own longstanding battle with anxiety, Scott Stossel presents a moving and revelatory account of a condition that affects some 40 million Americans in My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind. The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms.

Sally Mann, one of America's most renowned photographers, presents Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (Little, Brown and Company)—Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Nonfiction—a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history. A journalist specializing in Muslim societies, global social issues and culture, award-winning journalist Carla Power is the author of the If the Oceans Were Ink: ...

(Discussion on what role digital magazines play in the cultural life of a city). Mesa con Maricel Mayor Marsán (Cuba-EE.UU.), directora de redacción de la revista literaria Baquiana; Mónica Prandi (Argentina-EE.UU.), fundadora y directora de la revista digital Letra urbana; Glenda Galán (República Dominicana-EE.UU.), editora de DominicanaenMiami.com; Omar Villasana (México-EE.UU.), editor de Nagari Magazine, y Pedro Medina (Perú-EE.UU.), editor de la revista digital Suburbano. Mesa presentada por Mónica Prandi (Argentina-EE.UU.) y moderada por ...

The anthology Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine brings together the work of sixty-five prominent writers to examine America’s culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and beyond. The anthology’s editor Ru Freeman joins contributors Reginald Dwayne Betts, Jane Hirshfield, and Tom Sleigh to discuss the issues raised in the collection, including the erasure and ...

Enjoy the jazz sounds of Greater Miami Youth Symphony. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

Remember watching an old cartoon as an adult and understanding there was so much more going on than you’d realized as a kid?  Just because it’s in the children’s section doesn’t mean it’s JUST for kids. These stories from Craig Thompson, Martin Olson, Matt Holm and George O'Connor go beyond their bookstore age bracket. Moderated by Conor McCreery.

Former National Book Award Finalist Elizabeth McCracken’s first story collection in twenty years is Thunderstruck & Other Stories. From Mary Gaitskill comes The Mare: A Novel, the story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. From Rick Moody, a darkly comic portrait of a man who comes ...

A man decides he'll save his failing New York restaurant by traveling to Cuba to reclaim a legendary chicken recipe stolen from his family by Fidel Castro in Phillippe Diederich’s debut novel Sofrito. Fatima Shaik has written a love letter to the entertaining, unpredictable, and flawed characters who populated New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina in What Went Missing and What ...

Diane Roberts’s nonfiction book Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America tackles the controversies plaguing college athletics, tracing the dubious historical underpinnings of Americans’ most popular sport. In Beast: Blood, Struggle, and Dreams at the Heart of Mixed Martial Arts, Doug Merlino brings us a blunt examination of the history, culture, business, and meaning of professional cage fighting.

In his most recent book of nonfiction, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory, John Seabrook, a staff writer at the New Yorker tells a fascinating story of creativity and commerce that explains how today’s songs have become so addictive.

In her latest nonfiction book, A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka, Meera Subramanian travels in search of the ordinary people and microenterprises determined to revive India’s ravaged natural world. Seth M. Siegel’s nonfiction book, Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World reveals the ...

Susan Verde shows kids that yoga expands the heart and the mind, opening the doors for creativity and limitless imagination, in I Am Yoga.

P.J. O'Rourke sits down with Morgan Entrekin, his Publisher and Editor at Atlantic Monthly Press for over 30 years. They will discuss their long partnership, O'Rourke's prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humorists, and THROWN UNDER THE OMNIBUS, which brings over five decades of O'Rourke's funniest, most outrageous, most controversial, and most loved pieces together into a definitive ...

Start your Sunday with pastelitos, croquetas, café con leche and some Qué Pasa! Enjoy a behind the scenes talking tour of the iconic sitcom ¿Qué Pasa USA? with executive producer and writer Pepe Bahamonde, in conversation with cast members Barbara Ann Martin (Sharon) and Glenda Diaz Rigau (Marta). Relive some of Qué Pasa’s memorable moments and stay for a staged ...

Story Pirates turn your ideas into hilarious and unexpected performances. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

Zoo animals rehearse Shakespeare and a skeleton leads us in a revue of our biological systems, in the theatrical graphic novels from Ian Lendler, The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents Romeo and Juliet, and Maris Wicks' The Human Body Theater.

In Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild and America's Plant Hunters, Amanda Harris recounts the exploits of David Fairchild and his band of adventurers and botanists as they traversed Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe in search of new and exciting plants packed with flavor. In George Merrick, Son of the South Wind: Visionary Creator of Coral Gables, South Florida historian ...

From Pulitzer Prize – winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger, Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry is an engaging exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time.  Goldberger is in-conversation with the New York Public Library’s own Paul Holdengraber.

Celebrity chef Doreen Colondres serves up traditional Latin cuisine with a modern twist. This cooking demonstration includes a tasting and is ticketed. Seating is limited. Books will be available for sale and to be signed by the authors. Tickets for this event are no longer available online. Please visit the ticket booth at the venue for more information on availability of tickets. ...

Join five poets published by A Midsummer Night's Press, the preeminent publisher of LGBT poetry in the United States — Julie R. Enszer (Sisterhood), Rigoberto González (Our Lady of the Crossword), Raymond Luczak (Mute), Achy Obejas (This is What Happened in Our Other Life), moderated by two-time Lambda Literary Award-winner Lawrence Schimel, — as they explore how intersecting identities of ...

Chef Bert Gill, a pioneer in the local-food movement shares his southern kitchen and bold recipes in Pickled, Fried, and Fresh: Bert Gill’s Southern Flavors. James Beard Award winners Cynthia Graubart and Nathalie Dupree have excerpted their best vegetable recipes (plus added some new ones) in this timely collection, Mastering the Art of Southern Vegetables. Often passed down through the ...

Neal Shusterman, a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author presents Challenger Deep —Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Young People’s Literature—in which a brilliant high school student battling schizophrenia is split between his allegiance to the captain of a galleon that's headed for the deepest point on Earth and the allure of mutiny. Growing up is hard ...

Award-winning radio producer Sonja D. Williams draws on archives and hard-to-access family records to tell the story of the black radio dramatist who paved the way for a generation of activists, in Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom. In Dean Dixon: Negro at Home, Maestro Abroad, conductor and scholar Rufus Jones, Jr. brings to light unpublished primary sources to ...

Sponsored by the Green Family Foundation. Three women from Haiti will read and discuss poems that examine the physical, sociopolitical, canonical, and psychological kinds of exile endured by women writers of Haitian Descent. Poets Rebecca N. Carmant, Angie Bell, and Naomiel in conversation with M.J. Fievre will probe the complex issues of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class that limit ...

Jacinda Townsend’s debut novel, Saint Monkey, portrays a young pianist from Kentucky, who joins the blooming jazz scene in Harlem in an era where segregation is a stark reality. Peter Golden’s Wherever There Is Light: A Novel is a panoramic tale of twentieth-century America, chronicling the decades-long love affair between a Jewish immigrant and the granddaughter of a slave. The ...

Academy Award-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg's first collection of stories Bream Gives Me Hiccups, throws the reader into a universe of social misfits, reimagined scenes from history, and ridiculous overreactions. Yes, My Accent Is Real: And Some Other Things I Haven't Told You is a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS’s #1 hit ...

Dance and groove to Latin Grammy Award- winners Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band! All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

The Lost Landscape is literary master Joyce Carol Oates’ vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State.

Award-winning author Scott McCloud wrote the book on how comics work; now he vaults into great fiction with a breathtaking, funny, and unforgettable new work in The Sculptor. From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash. Moderated by Calvin Reid.

Dennis Dunaway presents a riveting account of the original shock-rock band’s over-the-top experiences and career in Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! : My Adventures in The Alice Cooper Group. Just in time for the “The Voice’s” centennial, comes Sinatra: The Chairman, James Kaplan's definitive biography of Sinatra that picks up the day after his Academy Award in 1954. Petty: The Biography ...

One girl leads the effort to dig a tunnel under the Berlin Wall, and a young Japanese boy helps an American boy on the run from shoguns, in Jennifer Nielsen’s A Night Divided and Margi Preus’ The Bamboo Sword. Presented in partnership with:

Turn the page, solve the riddle, lift the flap and discover another adventure with Walter Wick and Hey Seymour!

Breaking and popping with Miami’s b-boy dance crew Flipside Kings! All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

From your younger days catching a glimpse of the coveted Crayola 64-pack, all the way through to adulthood, most people can’t deny the call of the crayon.  The adult coloring book trend is sweeping the nation and Miami is answering its call and bringing color to the page with Rony Tako and Hugo Seijas, the Miami-based founders of the very ...

In her latest nonfiction book, Saving Florida: Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century, Leslie Kemp Poole reveals the impact women have had on preserving Florida’s natural resources. In her nonfiction book, The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet, Lyn Millner weaves the many bizarre strands of cult leader Cyrus Teed's ...

The Bronx — Paris — Los Angeles — early 1990s — hip-hop. In her photo collection Here I Am, Bronx-born photographer and cinematographer Lisa Leone opens portals to the sounds, places and, most importantly, the people who forged and continue to influence the energy that is hip-hop. Join Leone and graffiti artist and hip-hop pioneer FAB 5 FREDDY (Fred Brathwaite), ...

Come jam with this high energy Brazilian band that mixes 70’s Funk with Afro Samba, Brazilian Big Band, Batucada, Soul, and R&B. Batuke "brazilianizes" American sounds and "americanizes" Brazilian sounds to create a perfectly balanced fusion.

American Book Award-winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due's story collection Ghost Summer takes readers to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghosts. In Benjamin Percy's new thriller, The Dead Lands, a post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga, a super flu and nuclear fallout have made a husk of the world we know. ...

For many North Americans, Cuba and Haiti grab the headlines, while the rest of the Caribbean is just a tropical dream come true. This panel will prove that there’s a lot more to the Caribbean. Fiction writer Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw of Trinidad and Tobago and Sharon Leach of Jamaica explore the wry, self-conscious sides of the urban Caribbean, while debut poet ...

In collaboration with Tablet Magazine Contrary to some people's conception, Jews aren’t ONLY people of the book. From the immigrants who birthed the contemporary fashion industry to the modernists who fled Hitler to create the modern American home, Jews have been at the center of nearly every industry devoted to the "stuff" of the American dream. But why? And more importantly, ...

Explore the hidden world of the hard-working, charming, and squishy earthworm with Kevin McCloskey’s We Dig Worms!

Sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In collaboration with The New Tropic magazine. Leaders, businesses, non-profit organizations, publishers, authors, and activists are all harnessing the power of digital storytelling to build communities, inspire action, and affect change. Join Miranda Mulligan, Creative Director, Innovation & Mischief at National Geographic Digital; Caitlin Thompson, director of content for podcasting ...

In his fourth poetry collection, Roll Deep: Poems, Harvard Review’s poetry editor, Major Jackson, addresses a range of topics, most prominently human intimacy and war. In More Money Than God, Richard Michelson’s poems explore the boundaries between the personal and the political, and the connections between history and memory. Julie Marie Wade’s When I Was Straight: Poems is a collection ...

Linda Gassenheimer demos the best of Quick & Easy Chicken and Delicious One-Pot Dishes. This cooking demonstration includes a tasting and is ticketed. Seating is limited. Books will be available for sale and to be signed by the authors. Tickets for this event are no longer available online. Please visit the ticket booth at the venue for more information on availability of ...

Allyson Hobbs’s A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life is a revelatory history of African-Americans who passed as whites between the 18th and mid-20th centuries. Based on more than eighty interviews, Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South, is Andrew Maraniss’s fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the ...

Story Pirates turn your ideas into hilarious and unexpected performances. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

You grew up on fairy tales... but you've never heard them told like this. Reimagine stories you thought you knew with E.K. Johnston’s A Thousand Nights, Conor McCreery’s Sherlock Holmes vs. Harry Houdini and Kill Shakespeare, and R.C. Lewis’ Spinning Starlight.

Rosemary Parkinson’s Barbados Bu'n-Bu'n offers history, culture and cuisine packaged in a tome of vibrant photography, enthralling stories and tantalizing recipes that reflect all things Barbadian. With more than seventy-five recipes and one hundred-plus photographs, From the Tip of My Tongue shares the “Cuisine of the Sun" that has won legions of fans for Chef Cindy Hutson and partner Delius ...

An aspiring screenwriter ends up on a seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence, in Aleksandar Hemon’s novel The Making of Zombie Wars.  A seventy-eight-year-old widow sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover that she’s been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses in Jonathan Evison’s novel This Is Your Life, ...

Explorers' accounts from the 1600s, obscure journals and zines, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' early writing as a reporter and recent poetic and fictional musings on the Magic City: Discover new and unknown writers with staged readings of some iconic fragments of fiction/poetry/nonfiction writing about Miami! This isn’t your “same old, same old” literary reading. Join some of Miami’s local writers as ...

Reflections on Letter from a Young Poet, by Hyam Plutzik (Trinity College/BooksandBooks Press -2015) With Poet Gerald Stern and FIU Professor Asher Milbauer. Hosted by Writer and Literary Scholar, Edward Moran.

In Edwidge Danticat’s novel, Untwine, a woman wakes in a hospital, injured and unable to speak or move, and revisits her past in order to determine if she has a future worth recovering for. In Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx, one of America's most influential Latinas, Sonia Manzano — the actress who played 'Maria' on Sesame Street ...

Dance and groove to Latin Grammy Award-winners Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band! All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

In Scott Wilbanks’s debut novel, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster, a woman in present-time San Francisco connects with a truculent schoolmarm from 19th Century Kansas, and together they must figure out how they are able to communicate before one of them is convicted of a murder. Michael Golding’s novel, A Poet of the Invisible World, is an enchanted journey, ...

Magda Montiel Davis’s essay “Ashes Over Havana,” included in The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, is the story of her return to the country of her birth. Jo Ivester presents The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960’s Deep South a portrait of her family’s experiences living and working in an all-black ...

A family secret forces Sunny to spend a summer away from home. While she discovers the imaginative world of comic books, Sunny also has some hard realities to face, in Matt Holm's Sunny Side Up.

In Hallie Ephron’s Night Night, Sleep Tight: A Novel of Suspense, a woman in Beverly Hills discovers her father’s body in a swimming pool, and begins to suspect it was not an accidental drowning. Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents his latest anthology, The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, the largest collection of Sherlockian tales ever assembled. A man ...

Three time Eisner Award-winner Chip Kidd teams up with Geoff Spear and Jeff Kinney to honor the most popular and influential comic strip of all time, in Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts. Former president and publisher of DC Comics, Paul Levitz celebrates the man who changed comics forever in Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel. Moderated by ...

From Nathan Ward, The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett, is the first book to illuminate Hammett's transformation from real detective to great American detective writer. In the biography, Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragons, Michael Witwer has written an engaging chronicle of the life and legacy of this emperor of the imagination.

Over the past ten years, Europa Editions has built a catalog featuring fiction and non-fiction by authors from over twenty-eight countries, making it one of the leading publishers of international fiction in America. Europa Editions' list now boasts four New York Times bestselling authors, three Booker Prize-shortlisted novels, seven New York Times Editors' Picks, four New York Times Notable Books ...

Can Mike help his magician's assistant Nora overcome her stage fright in time for the big school talent show? Find out in Mike Lane’s The Disappearing Magician. You might even get a magic show!

Acclaimed journalist Nelson A. Denis‘s War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico’s history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination. In Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina, investigative journalist Ronnie Greene ...

Folklorist Liliane Nerette-Louis tells tales from Haiti. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

Orange Island Arts Foundation hosts its Sunday Salon South Florida, your local installation of a nationwide monthly reading series featuring critically acclaimed writers of all literary genres.  This event will feature readings from Florida writers James Tabard, M.J. Fievre and Cecilia Fernandez published by the indie press Beating Windward Press.

Despite the dire predictions that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Now, two out of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining ...

In Erratic Facts, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan examines enormous subjects — existence, consciousness, love, loss — in compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance. The first Hispanic to be named U.S. poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, presents Portrait of Hispanic American Heroes, a visually stunning book that showcases twenty Hispanic and ...

Artists in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE) is pleased to launch its Wild Billboards campaign with a cultural sampling of performers nesting among select mini billboards atThe Swamp. Deborah Mitchell will moderate a discussion with biologists and artists, including multi-disciplinary artist Franky Cruz, about ecological concerns and experiences in the wild.

When Popov the dog starts snoring, everyone in the house wakes up! Now, sleeping is the last thing on everyone's mind.  Bed time takes a hilarious turn in Dorothée De Monfreid's Shhh! I'm Sleeping.

Nancy Harmon Jenkins takes you on a culinary journey through the best of Mediterranean cuisine. This cooking demonstration includes a tasting and is ticketed. Seating is limited. Books will be available for sale and to be signed by the authors. Tickets for this event are no longer available online. Please visit the ticket booth at the venue for more information ...

Harvey Frommer tells the fascinating story of the ground-breaking AFL-NFL World Championship Football game played on January 15, 1967, in When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl. Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer, features nearly ...

Robert Goolrick’s The Fall of Princes: A Novel takes readers back to the excess and decadence of eighties Wall Street. When the infamous New York City blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of the lives in Garth Risk Hallberg’s debut novel, City on Fire, will be changed forever. Brad Gooch's Smash Cut is a memoir ...

American Art Deco Furniture is a Limited Edition book written by collector Ric Emmet that covers the development of an American “style” of furniture that breaks from European tradition; Iza Emmet, the author’s wife and partner will be presenting.

Rock-out with Live! Modern School of Music. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

Readers and booksellers were delighted this year by discoveries of half-century old manuscripts that yielded Go Set A Watchman, a novel from the reclusive Harper Lee, and What Pet Should I Get?, by the beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss. The bestseller lists for 2015 also included Grey, a retelling of the bawdy smash 50 Shades of Grey. Yet audiences – ...

Dr. Maria Elena Martin, a practicing architect and Senior Professor at the Havana School of Architecture in the Higher Institute for Polytechnic Studies presents Havana Art Deco: An Architectural Guide, a definitive overview of Havana’s Art Deco Architecture. Enrique Fernandez’s Cortadito: My Wanderings Through Cuba's Mutilated Yet Resilient Cuisine is a dissertation on Cuban cuisine seen through the author's memories ...

Adam Johnson follows his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master’s Son with a story collection, Fortune Smiles—six masterly stories in which Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. In Padgett Powell’s new collection, Cries for Help, Various: Stories, the surrealistic and comical terrain of most of the forty-four ...

From Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, the creators of the popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast, comes the novel of the same name, an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves... no matter where we live.

Roberto Vivo’s War: A Crime Against Humanity is a condensation of the history of war and the evolution of humanity in its search for enduring and active world peace.

Delou Africa presents "Movements and Rhythms of Africa." All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

One of the world’s best-known attorneys, Alan M. Dershowitz, gives a no-holds-barred history of Jewish lawyers, from the biblical Abraham through modern-day advocates who have changed the world by challenging the status quo, in Abraham: The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer.

In Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide, MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid shows that, despite the progress we have made, we are still a nation divided—as seen recently in headline-making tragedies such as the killing of Trayvon Martin and the uprisings in Ferguson and Baltimore. In Leonard Pitts’s new novel Grant Park, a disillusioned newspaper columnist is ...

Laura McDermott Matheric’s poetry chapbook Visions on Alligator Alley is an ekphrastic story-in-verse that traces the journey of a Florida woman who struggles with the overwhelmingly masculine world she lives in, Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez’s chapbook of poetry, Shining from a Different Firmament captures the voices of women, fictional, legendary and historical, who lived, loved and dies with an undefeated spirit. ...

Cruising the boundary between poetry and performance art, Queer Quinceañera is a celebration of Miami’s coming of age, hosted by local drag performers Juleysi and Karla. True to its queer spirit, it will include all the necessary ingredients for a proper coming of age party: a palanquin, a poetry reading, a Gloria Estefan song (or two), and a big ‘ole ...

Sponsored by The de Groot Foundation. Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter shows how we can put technological innovation to work in Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead.   Sponsored by

Laura Lynne Jackson tells her extraordinary true story of coming to terms with her gift as a psychic medium, in The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven. Lessons for the Living. A leader in the field of past-life therapy, Dr. Brian L. Weiss reveals how past-life regression holds the keys to our spiritual purpose in Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing ...

Sponsored by República. Actress and choreographer Rosie Perez’s memoir Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I survived Sister Renata, My Crazy Mother and Still Came Out Smiling with Great Hair! recounts her rise to success from the streets of Brooklyn to her turbulent years in a Catholic children’s home, and finally to film and TV sets and the LA and ...