Poetry

National and presidential poet laureates. Iconic and emerging voices that cross cultures and experiences. Reflections on pain and resilience. Prose that provokes, soothes, and empowers. Welcome to poetry at Miami Book Fair.

Past Events

November 2023

Sunday, November 19, 2023 @ 4:00 pm
Room 8302 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

VOICES OF JAMAICA: EXPLORING RACE, IDENTITY & MEMORY

Three distinct Jamaican voices, each contributing unique perspectives on race, identity, and memory. GEOFFREY PHILP creates powerful verse in Archipelagos that reflects the struggles of the Caribbean in a world facing global disasters and societal inequities. DALE MAHFOOD’s When Trees Fall: Book One of the Wood and Water Saga delves into secrets, love, and the quest for paternal approval against the backdrop of historical political change in Jamaica. And SAFIYA SINCLAIR‘s How to Say Babylon: A Memoir provides a profound exploration of Jamaican identity in a shifting cultural and social landscape.…

Sunday, November 19, 2023 @ 4:00 pm
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

SWEET WORLD: A TRIBUTE TO MAUREEN SEATON

This reading honors the life and work of award-winning poet, professor, and LGBTQ+ activist Maureen Seaton (October 20, 1947 – August 26, 2023), author of more than two dozen solo and collaborative books, who touched the lives of so many in Miami and beyond through her poetry, teaching, and kindness. Hosted by poets DENISE DUHAMEL and NICOLE TALLMAN, this tribute gathers a group of local poets to read their favorite poems from Seaton’s expansive collection in memory and celebration of her remarkable literary accomplishments.…

Sunday, November 19, 2023 @ 3:30 pm
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33132 United States

ON FAME & FRIENDSHIP: A POETRY READING & CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD BLANCO & CAMPBELL MCGRATH

Join us for a special conversation with Miami-Dade County Poet Laureate RICHARD BLANCO and his friend, mentor, and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow CAMPBELL MCGRATH. In Homeland of My Body: New & Selected Poems, Blanco has collected more than 100 poems from his previous books that represent his evolution as a writer grappling with identity, love, the idea of “home,” and ultimately art itself. McGrath’s Fever of Unknown Origin: Poems considers the intersection of history, beauty, and destruction,…

Sunday, November 19, 2023 @ 3:00 pm
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

THE BODY KEEPS SCORE: THREE POETS ON SCARS, SENSUALITY & SELFHOOD

In Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, KATIE FARRIS questions and praises the body even as it deteriorates in a gut-wrenching battle with cancer, affirming sensuality despite physical scars. JANINE JOSEPH’s Decade of the Brain: Poems articulates the strangeness of living in relation to other past and simultaneous selves changed by injury, intimacy, notions of citizenship, and nation. BRIAN TURNER’s unique trilogy – The Wild Delight of Wild Things, The Goodbye World Poem,…

Sunday, November 19, 2023 @ 2:45 pm
Room 8525 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

LITERATURA SIN CORSET

ENA COLUMBIÉ presenta una selección exquisita de sus cuentos, ALEJANDRO ROBLES llega con un volumen de microrrelatos sobre la figura del dragón, y LENA YAU ofrece una colección de poemas que parten de un sabor, un olor o un espacio. Los autores conversarán con el poeta, periodista y editor GERMÁN GUERRA. Compra Cabrón. – Columbié Compra Gabinete de dragones. – Robles Compra Trae tu espalda para hacer mi mesa. – Yau Compra Hormigas en la lengua.…

Sunday, November 19, 2023 @ 2:00 pm
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

THREE POETS TURN THE TIDE ON GEOGRAPHY & IDENTITY

RACHEL DEWOSKIN’s absolute animal finds sense amid disorder and unearths connections between the animal and the human, the ancient and the contemporary, inviting us to consider what holds life, what lasts, and what defines and enriches the experience of being human. In Romantic Comedy, JAMES ALLEN HALL creates liberatory narratives, whether grieving a father’s death, documenting the survival of sexual assault, interrogating the scripts of addiction, or revisiting a 1980s crime thriller. Formally and acoustically attuned,…

Sunday, November 19, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

REFLECTION & REVISITATION: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH TWO POETS

Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022 traces the evolution of MAJOR JACKSON’s transformative imagination and fierce music through five acclaimed volumes across two decades of writing. This collection offers a sustained portrait of a poet “bound up in the ecstatic,” whose buoyant lyricism confronts the social and political forces that would demean humanity. In August 2014, Michael Brown – a young, unarmed Black man – was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil,…

Sunday, November 19, 2023 @ 12:00 pm
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

SPEAK UP PRESENTS MATURE ORIGINS: A CONVERSATION ON POETRY WITH YOUTH POETS LAUREATE SATURN BROWNE & EVAN WANG

Join Connecticut Youth Poet Laureate and author of Bloodpaths SATURN BROWNE and Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate EVAN WANG for a reading and conversation, moderated by South Florida Youth Poet Ambassador and Speak Up Student Ambassador CAITLIN VILLACRUSIS, on sharpening one’s craft within the teen poetry community, developing the individual voice in contest cycles, and succeeding publicly while failing privately. Speak Up, a free, year-round creative writing workshop series for teens ages 13-19, is a program of Miami Book Fair.…

Sunday, November 19, 2023 @ 11:00 am
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

YOU’VE GOT A TICKET TO RIDE: A READING WITH THREE POETS

In Two Open Doors in a Field, a profusion of sonnets rises from SOPHIE KLAHR’s bond with Nebraska and the experience of driving thousands of miles alone while listening to the radio, where unexpected landscapes make listening to the unexpected more acute. NICOLE TALLMAN’s Poems for the People and Fersace are both a refreshing and honest Michigan-meets-Miami handling of hard topics that adjust to the changing world around her, seeking solace in conversations with the dead and living (including herself),…

Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33132 United States

THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

A special event featuring many of this year’s honorees, including NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH, AALIYAH BILAL, ERIN BOW, KENNETH M. CADOW, OLIVER DE LA PAZ, ELIOT DUNCAN, JONATHAN EIG, CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA, HUDA FAHMY, STÊNIO GARDEL, ANNELYSE GELMAN, VASHTI HARRISONTANIA JAMES,

Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 4:00 pm
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

REFRAMING THE PORTRAIT OF THE POET

MAHOGANY L. BROWNE’s Chrome Valley: Poems offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America, capturing the pleasures and pangs of young love and motherhood, and reveling in the beauty of the undaunted self-determination passed down from Black woman to Black woman. The poems in CHEN CHEN’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency: Poems a acknowledge and name the persistent threat of violence, while also reminding its reader of joys both small and large: West Texas sunsets,…

Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 3:00 pm
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

AN INVITATION TO POETRY: SPEAK UP PRESENTS A READING & CONVERSATION WITH RUDY FRANCISCO

In Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky, RUDY FRANCISCO explores poetic forms such as the contrapuntal, golden shovel, and the ode to inspire readers, expose them to different avenues of approaching the act of writing poetry, and invite them to try it for themselves. Moderated by South Florida Youth Poet Ambassador and Speak Up Student Ambassador CAITLIN VILLACRUSIS. Buy Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky. – Francisco  …

Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 2:15 pm
Room 8503 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

LO NUEVO DE CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA

La autora, traductora y crítica mexicana CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA presenta sus nuevas obras: El invencible verano de Liliana, una crónica sobre el femicidio de su hermana; Turbar la quietud. Gestos subversivos entre fronteras, obra editada junto a GISELA HEFFES acerca del trabajo de autoras de habla hispana, y Me llamo cuerpo que no está, un volumen con su poesía reunida. Rivera Garza y Heffes conversarán con el periodista ÓSCAR MOLINA V., primer participante del Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowships Program en español.…

Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 1:30 pm
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

CELEBRATING THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEES FOR POETRY

A special event with OLIVER DE LA PAZ, The Diaspora Sonnets; ANNELYSE GELMAN, Vexations; JOSÉ OLIVAREZ, Promises of Gold; PAISLEY REKDAL, West: A Translation; CHARIF SHANAHAN, Trace Evidence: Poems; EVIE SHOCKLEY, suddenly we; and MONICA YOUN, From From: Poems; moderating is RUTH DICKEY, National Book Foundation executive director. Buy The Diaspora Sonnets. – De La Paz Buy Vexations.…

Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 12:30 pm
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

MICROCOSMS OF HISTORY: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH FOUR DEBUT POETS

Fire Index: Poems by BETHANY BREITLAND measures the interior life of a survivor against the world she creates through her own fractured marriage, motherhood, and religion, reckoning with her complicit, and often dishonest life to demand her full attention, forgiveness, and responsibility. Drawing its title from the 1863 federal act that banished the Dakota people from their homelands, Removal Acts: Poems by ERIN MARIE LYNCH reckons with the present-day repercussions of historical violence, assembling an intimate record of recovery from bulimia and insisting that self-erasure cannot be separated from the erasures of genocide.…

Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 11:30 am
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

FINELY OBSERVED, PRECISELY FELT: A READING BY FOUR FLORIDA POETS

In her 14th poetry collection, Homelight: Poems, LOLA HASKINS remembers poets who preceded her, from Sappho to Blake to Merwin, before turning to the arrogance of the way we treat the planet and each other, and finally considering death in the form of tributes to lost friends and her own preparations to follow them. In The Halo of Bees: New & Selected Poems 1990-2022, MICHAEL HETTICH presents selections from more than two dozen books spanning five decades,…

Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 10:30 am
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

SO YOU WANT TO START A LITERARY PUBLICATION: A ROUNDTABLE WITH EDITORS & WRITERS

Join four Florida-rooted editors and writers for an industry talk about how to take any community-centered literary project – anthology, creative arts publication, food culture, and more – from start to finish. Featuring DUSTIN BROOKSHIRE, Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology co-editor; GRAZIE SOPHIA CHRISTIE and GINEVRA LILY DAVIS, The Miami Native co-editors; SUANAY HERNANDEZ, UndrBelly editor; and JASMINE RESPESS, Islandia Journal literary editor.…

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Room 2106 (Building 2, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

UN BRINDIS PARA PRESENTAR LUGAR COMÚN-ALLITERATION

Una conversación entre la poeta BETTSIMAR DÍAZ, el escritor y poeta LEONARDO PADRÓN, el escritor CAMILO PINO y el editor GARCILASO PUMAR presentando la nueva propuesta cultural de Miami Beach.…

Sunday, November 12, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
The Art Lab (Building 1, First Floor, Room 1101)
300 N.E. Second Avenue (Bldg. 1, 1st floor), Miami, 33132 United States

POESÍA PARA LOS 40 DE LA FERIA

La Feria reúne a LOURDES VÁZQUEZ, LEGNA RODRÍGUEZ IGLESIAS, ONEYDA GONZÁLEZ, y ROSIE INGUANZO, un grupo de poetas que nos han acompañado a lo largo de los años, tres de ellos galardonados con el Premio Paz, en una lectura de celebración coordinada por CARLOS PINTADO.…

November 2022

Sunday, November 20, 2022 @ 4:30 pm
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

“Meditations on Motherhood”: Allison Blevins & Raina J. León

In Slowly/Suddenly, Allison Blevins writes the plights of mothers, daughters, lovers, and spouses in a voice that endures scars and calluses but refuses to accept them as necessary. Raina J. León‘s black god mother this body is a soft and sharp meditation on Black motherhood, colorism, identity, ancestry, and what it means to heal and nurture our inner child. Moderating is author Caridad Moro-Gronlier, editor for Supporting Women Writers in Miami (SWWiM).

Sunday, November 20, 2022 @ 3:30 pm
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

“The Limit Does Not Exist”: Betsy Aoki, Zeina Hashem Beck, Sun Yung Shin & Yanyi

Breakpoint by Betsy Aoki exquisitely blends technology and the Asian American experience in an evocative mixture of sensual experiences, and mathematically infused linguistic patterns. Formally electrifying – from lyrics and triptychs to ghazals and Zeina Hashem Beck‘s own duets, in which English and Arabic echo and contradict each other – O explores the limits of language, notions of home and exile, and stirring visions of motherhood, memory, and faith. Smashing the hierarchies of god and humanity,…

Sunday, November 20, 2022 @ 2:30 pm
Room 8525 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

La palabra, creadora de territorios poéticos

Cuatro poetas cubanos con sus nuevas obras: Félix Anesio, poeta y narrador, presenta País sin moscas, un cuaderno de versos que busca la luz donde parece no existir. El poeta, ensayista y periodista Joaquín Gálvez llega con su poemario Desde mi propia isla, en el que crea con sus versos un territorio insular propio. Santiago “Chago” Rodríguez, poeta, narrador, ensayista y pintor, viene con Crónica de una despedida festiva, un libro que le rinde homenaje a su hermana y a su gran pasión: el cine.…

Sunday, November 20, 2022 @ 2:30 pm
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

“Documentary Poetics: On Sexuality, Space & Survival”: Erika Meitner, Tom Sleigh, Diane Thiel & Seema Yasmin

In Useful Junk, Erika Meitner considers what it means to be a sexual being in a world that sees women as invisible, reminding us that our selves are made real and beautiful by our embodied experiences and that our desire is what keeps us alive. Justice is a prevailing force in The King’s Touch by Tom Sleigh, charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self,…

Sunday, November 20, 2022 @ 1:00 pm
Room 8525 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Letras made in the 305

Poeta, narradora, guionista, dramaturga, traductora y compositora de música popular puertorriqueña, María Juliana Villafañe comparte la edición bilingüe de su poemario Aires de Tormenta / Storm Winds en el que indaga en su propio ser para intentar dar respuestas a sus preocupaciones esenciales. Jaime Cabrera González, narrador y periodista colombiano, presenta En un bosque de la China, donde convergen cuentos, microrrelatos, anécdotas y recuerdos, sazonados con humor e imaginación. Eduardo Herrera Baullosa es poeta,…

Sunday, November 20, 2022 @ 1:00 pm
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

“Everyday Apocalypses”: Franny Choi, Safia Elhillo, Saeed Jones & Paul Tran

Franny Choi‘s third book, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival. In Girls That Never Die: Poems, Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, the violences enacted and imagined against women’s bodies, and ponders what liberation from these threats might look like.…

Sunday, November 20, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

“Heritage & History”: Anuradha Bhowmik, Jasminne Mendez & Alexandra Lytton Regalado

Brown Girl Chromatography interrogates issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in a post-9/11 America while navigating Anuradha Bhowmik‘s millennial childhood, adolescence, and adulthood as a Bangladeshi-born American girl. City Without Altar by Jasminne Mendez is a play in verse that seeks to amplify the voices and experiences of victims, survivors and living ancestors of the 1937 Haitian Massacre that occurred along the northwest Dominican-Haitian border during the Trujillo era. Alexandra Lytton Regalado wrote Relinquenda entirely during lockdown as a meditation on cancer and the passing of her father,…

Sunday, November 20, 2022 @ 11:00 am
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

“Poetry for the People”: Richard Blanco, Gianna Russo & Olive Senior

In How to Love a Country: Poems, Miami-Dade County Poet Laureate and U.S. Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that affect us all. Gianna Russo, the Wordsmith of the City of Tampa, documented the last quarter of 2020, collected as a dialogue between poems and photographs in All I See Is Your Glinting: 90 Days in the Pandemic. With gripping narratives and brilliant descriptions,…

Saturday, November 19, 2022 @ 5:30 pm
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33132 United States

Sandra Cisneros & Manuel Muñoz: A Conversation

Woman Without Shame: Poems is Sandra Cisneros‘ first book of poetry in 28 years. The collection comprises dozens of never-before-seen poems and includes songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These are bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love. The stories in Manuel Muñoz‘s The Consequences are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns surrounding Fresno.…

Saturday, November 19, 2022 @ 4:30 pm
Room 8503 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Versos para días inciertos

El poeta y guionista cubano Ramón Fernández Larrea presenta Terneros que nunca mueran de rodillas, una colección de poemas que reflejan la convulsa realidad cubana de los años ochenta. Luis Pérez Oramas, ensayista, poeta y curador venezolano, ofrece La mano segadora, con poemas que dan testimonio de una voz singular que “hila los acontecimientos y hace de la vida poesía”. La poeta, narradora y ensayista nacida en Cuba Reina María Rodríguez presenta Dársenas, su más reciente poemario.…

Saturday, November 19, 2022 @ 4:30 pm
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

“Kindred Poets”: Gregg Shapiro, Nicole Tallman, Julie Marie Wade & Shelley Wong

Completing his trilogy of poetic pop-culture explorations of family, love, and memory, Gregg Shapiro‘s Fear of Muses: Poems explores the evolving depth of love and becoming through a delicate and fine-tuned reckoning with familial and relational history. Through the spare beauty of haiku and fineness of belles-lettres, Nicole Tallman‘s Something Kindred: Prose & Poetry is a testament to the living, not the dying, in an evocative and stirring account of grieving that echoes with ache in our hearts,…

Saturday, November 19, 2022 @ 3:30 pm
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

“Four Way Books & Friends Present Coordinates: A Podcast for Writers and Readers”: Nathan McClain, Ryan Murphy & Matthew Olzmann

Four Way Books celebrates its upcoming 30th anniversary with the launch of Coordinates: A Podcast for Writers and Readers, featuring Nathan McClain, author of Previously Owned; his editor, Ryan Murphy; and Matthew Olzmann, author of Constellation Route. Together they discuss their new poetry collections, the editorial process, independent presses, and the business of being a writer. Moderating is Hannah Matheson, poet and publicist for Four Way Books. With thanks to associate sponsor…

Saturday, November 19, 2022 @ 2:30 pm
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

Ariel Francisco & Lissette Lendeborg: A Conversation

From the Bronx, New York, to the Dominican Republic to Guatemala, Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head by Ariel Francisco traces and retraces origins, lineages, and the missteps and fractures that complicate what it means to be a first generation Latinx-American in a country so dedicated to silencing, violence, and erasing the past. With deep connections to nature and God, both painterly and sorrowful, Lissette Lendeborg explores vivid hues of youth,…

Saturday, November 19, 2022 @ 1:30 pm
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

“Poets Reclaim Radiant Power”: Taneum Bambrick, James Fujinami Moore & Roger Reeves

Taneum Bambrick‘s Intimacies, Received moves through households and years, following a survivor of sexual assault as she painstakingly reassembles a narrative of self, recalling embodiment and dissociation, illness and isolation, and queer female sexuality amidst acts of misogyny. From Vegas boxing rings and the restless sands of Manzanar to the scrolling horrors of a Facebook feed, James Fujinami Moore‘s indecent hours traces a history of diaspora and trauma that asks: what do we do in the aftermath of violence,…

Saturday, November 19, 2022 @ 1:00 pm
Room 8302 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

“Out of Many, One People”: Olive Senior, Dionne Irving & Jonathan Escoffery

Writers with ties to Jamaica will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the island nation’s independence. Reading from their own work, Olive Senior, Hurricane Watch: New & Collected Poems, Dionne Irving, The Islands: Stories, and Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You: Stories, will ponder the past and present to speculate about the obstacles and opportunities that lie ahead. Moderating is Tanya Batson-Savage, Jamaican writer, filmmaker, and publisher. Media Partners…

Saturday, November 19, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

“Redemption, Refuge & Release”: Peter Balakian, Victoria Chang, John Freeman & Victoria Redel

Whether meditating on the sensuality of fruits and vegetables, the COVID-19 pandemic, the trauma and memory of the Armenian genocide, James Baldwin in France, or Arshile Gorky in New York City, Peter Balakian‘s layered, elliptical language, wired phrases, and shifting tempos in No Sign engage both life’s harshness and beauty and define his inventive and distinctive style. In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese syllabic forms called “wakas,” powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life’s hardest questions: how to let go.…

Saturday, November 19, 2022 @ 11:00 am
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States

“Poets Disrupting the Status Quo”: Kemi Alabi, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Anni Liu & Christopher Soto

Against Heaven: Poems by Kemi Alabi reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our country’s central and ordained fictions – those mythic politics of respectability, resilience, and redemption. Utilizing collage, Ecuadorian décimas, and declassified CIA documents, the poems in Paul Hlava Ceballos‘ debut collection banana [ ] reveal the extractive relationship the United States has with the Americas and its people through poetic portraits of migrants,…

Saturday, November 19, 2022 @ 10:30 am
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33132 United States

National Book Foundation Presents: The 2022 National Book Awards

The National Book Foundation presents the 2022 National Book Award longlisters, finalists, and winners, in an annual super-sized showcase of readings and conversation, moderated by Ruth Dickey, executive director of the National Book Foundation. Featuring Fatimah Asghar, Derrick Barnes, Isaac Blum, Sarah Booker, Traci Chee, Johnnie Christmas, Jennifer Croft, Ramona Emerson, Jonathan Escoffery,…

Friday, November 18, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
On Demand (Virtual)

Jorie Graham on [To] the Last [Be] Human: Poetry

​​[To] The Last [Be] Human collects four extraordinary poetry books – Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway – by Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, presenting a body of work that stands as a “lyric record” of the calamitous decades that began the 21st century. To read these four books in a single volume is to experience vastly complex patterns forming and reforming in mind, eye, and ear. Introduced by Nikay Paredes, Academy of American Poets programs director.…

Wednesday, November 16, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
On Demand (Virtual)

2021 National Poetry Series Winner Alexandra Lytton Regalado

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 Alexandra Lytton Regalado on Relinquenda: Poems, speaking with the judge who selected her manuscript, Reginald Dwayne Betts,…

Monday, November 14, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
On Demand (Virtual)

2021 National Poetry Series Winner Kien Lam

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 Kien Lam on Extinction Theory: Poems, speaking with the judge who selected his manuscript, Kyle Dargan,…

Sunday, November 13, 2022 @ 3:00 pm
Room 2106 (Building 2, 1st Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Poesía y música en diálogo

El poeta cubano residente en Miami Carlos Pintado, ganador entre otros del Premio Paz de Poesía 2014, inaugura el Programa de Autores Iberoamericanos con El árbol rojo, una colección de haikus en los que la mirada del poeta penetra el acontecer cotidiano en busca de lo trascendente. Pintado se presenta con el cantautor cubano Francisco Céspedes en un diálogo poético-musical. Esta presentación en persona también será transmitida en MiamiBookFairOnline.com.…

Sunday, November 13, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
On Demand (Virtual)

2021 National Poetry Series Winner Su Cho

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 Su Cho on The Symmetry of Fish, speaking with the judge who selected her manuscript, Paige Lewis,…

Sunday, November 13, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
On Demand (Virtual)

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón & Robert Casper: A Conversation

Ada Limón returns to the Miami Book Fair to celebrate her new appointment as the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and The Hurting Kind, an astonishing collection about interconnectedness between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves. What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all?…

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