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November 2015

Saturday, November 21, 2015 @ 4:30 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Four 2015 National Book Award Finalists in Poetry: A Reading

Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude—Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry—is a sustained meditation on that which goes away– loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it — that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. Robin Coste Lewis’s Voyage of the Sable Venus—Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry—is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self.…

Saturday, November 21, 2015 @ 5:30 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Voices of the Caribbean: New Poetry

Carlos Pintado’s Paz Prize-winning collection of poetry Nine Coins/Nueve monedas is a palimpsest of love, fears, dreams, and the intimate landscapes where the author seeks refuge. Colin Channer’s debut poetry collection, Providential, draws on his knowledge of Jamaican culture and on his complex relationship with his father. Vladimir Lucien’s new collection of poetry, Sounding Ground, contains stories of ancestors, immediate family, and history embedded in his native St. Lucia. The poems in Nicholas Laughlin’s The Strange Years of My Life include the narratives of 19th-century travelers and 20th-century anthropologists,…

Saturday, November 21, 2015 @ 7:00 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

New Poems: A Reading

From renowned actress and poet, Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler is a book of poems that explores the lives of more than twenty-five actresses lost before their time. In Hustle, the speaker of David Tomas Martinez’s poems steals cars, runs away, sits in understudy at the bar, fathers a child before seventeen, and works welding frigates. Jonathan Moody’s second book, Olympic Butter Gold: Poems, responds to Chuck D’s claim that “if there was a hip-hop or Rap Olympics,…

Saturday, November 21, 2015 @ 8:00 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Four Poets: A Reading

From Albert Goldbarth, the only poet to have twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award, comes Selfish, an extraordinary collection that explores celebrity culture, Charles Darwin, sex shops, science fiction, ancient cave art, comic books, and the fates of many family and friends. In The Emperor of Water Clocks Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa brings his jazz-inflected rhythms and his effortlessly surreal images to this celebration of natural beauty and of love. Poet Mary Jo Bang’s collection,…

Saturday, November 21, 2015 @ 9:30 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

New Poems: A Reading

Booklist describes Honor Moore‘s third collection of poetry, Red Shoes, as “Sexy, telegraphic, edgy, and rapt. . . . Exquisitely visual, cuttingly witty . . . at once cool and searing.” In PBS NewsHour anchor and correspondent Jeffrey Brown’s debut poetry collection, The News, he re-imagines and re-tells his experiences through poems that explore stories he’s covered, places he’s gone, and people he’s met. Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World is a dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work,…

Saturday, November 21, 2015 @ 11:00 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Poems: A Reading From New Collections

Laurence Raab’s eighth poetry collection, Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts—a Longlist selection for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry—is presented in an American idiom that is canny, sly, defeated, pessimistic, resilient, and perplexingly knowledgeable about the human predicament. Ralph Hamilton’s collection of poetry, Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail, is a book about relationships, both with those closest to us and with ourselves. Beth Bachmann follows up her award-winning poetry collection,…

Saturday, November 21, 2015 @ 12:00 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

New Poems: A Reading

In Caki Wilkinson’s new collection, The Wynona Stone Poems, we meet a woman who’s on track to lose her job, doesn’t love the weatherman she’s sleeping with, and everything she tries (cosmetology, astrology) falls short. Passionate, committed, and deeply humane, Indran Amirthanayagam‘s poems in Uncivil War bear witness with unflinching honesty to the horrific violence of the Sri Lankan civil war. Reginald Dwayne Betts’s collection, Bastards of the Reagan Era, is a challenge,…

Sunday, November 22, 2015 @ 5:00 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Poems: Readings from New Books

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 My Feelings, Nick Flynn’s fourth book of poetry, the award-winning poet and memoirist examines loss,…

Sunday, November 22, 2015 @ 6:00 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

New Poems: A Reading

Pablo Medina translates the poems of Cuban dramatist, novelist and critic Virgilio Piñera in The Weight of the Island and discusses his own latest poetry collection, The Island Kingdom, an exploration of his native island. In C.M. Clark’s third poetry collection, Dragonfly, all three temporal elements, past, present and future, function simultaneously. Orlando Ricardo Menes’s collection Heresies: Poems incorporates history, legend, and magical realism to create a cross-cultural baroque feeling. William Kistler’s fifth poetry collection,…

Sunday, November 22, 2015 @ 7:30 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Poems: Readings from New Books

Erin Belieu‘s fourth poetry collection, Slant Six, is an inundation of the humor and horror in contemporary American life. In his latest collection, Reconnaissance: Poems, Carl Phillips maps out the contours of a world in revision, where truth lies captured at one moment and at the next goes free, transformed. In Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s latest collection, Heaven —a Longlist selection for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry—Phillips swerves elegantly from humor to heartbreak,…

Sunday, November 22, 2015 @ 9:00 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

New Poems: A Reading

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 lush post-confessional poems, unabashed in their desire, tentative, and then bold in their knowledge.…

Sunday, November 22, 2015 @ 10:30 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Knitting Pearls: A Reading

Cindy Chinelly and Michael Ruhlman join Ann Hood, editor of  Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting, in which two dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting.…

Sunday, November 22, 2015 @ 11:30 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Books from Boxes: Where Will We Find the Next Bestsellers?

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 – not to mention publishers – will need to discover new tales and new talent if the book business is to thrive.…

Sunday, November 22, 2015 @ 12:30 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Poems: Readings from New Books

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. Vagabond: Selected Poems, Short Stories and Plays is the latest collection from Oscar Fuentes,…

November 2018

Saturday, November 17, 2018 @ 10:00 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Business Success

In Investing in Income Properties: The Big Six Formula for Achieving Wealth in Real Estate, real estate guru Kenneth Rosen lays out the fundamentals for building real estate wealth.JFK and Bobby, Arnie and Jack…and David! opens with the riveting story of David Pearson‘s experience in the White House the night of November 22, 1963, as he was asked to help in the preparations for President John F. Kennedy’s funeral.…

Saturday, November 17, 2018 @ 11:00 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

MBF / DE GROOT Prize Winners

Join MBF/de Groot Prize winner, MARCI VOGEL, and finalists, NIKI TULK and BRANDEN BOYER-WHITE, for this reading from their winning works. Vogel’s novella, Death and Other Holidays, was published this fall by Melville House. DENNIS JOHNSON and VALERIE MERIANS of Melville House; author JIM SHEPARD, judge for the MBF/de Groot Prize for Novella; and principals of de Groot Foundation, CHARLES and CLYDETTE DE GROOT,…

Saturday, November 17, 2018 @ 12:30 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Short Stories: A Reading

Laura Valeri’s The Dead Still Here, a collection of short stories, is at once provocative and lucid, and offers various angles of characters looking for a relationship to hold. Set in Cuba mostly after the fall of the Soviet Union, the stories in Dariel Suarez’ A Kind of Solitude explore the themes of isolation and perseverance.  Adrian Todd Zuniga’s Collision Theory takes readers on an unpredictable journey in which a man is forced to confront difficult truths: girlfriends leave,…

Saturday, November 17, 2018 @ 2:00 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Readings from New Novels of Suspense

In Rochelle Weinstein’s novel, Somebody’s Daughter, a private and humiliating indiscretion goes viral and thrusts a seemingly perfect family into the center of a shocking public scandal. Laura Lippman meets Megan Abbott in Lauren Doyle Owens’ The Other Side of Everything: A Novel, a suspenseful literary debut about three generations of neighbors whose lives intersect in the aftermath of a crime.  Tiffany Quay Tyson’s The Past Is Never: A Novel is a compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction,…

Saturday, November 17, 2018 @ 3:30 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Readings from New Novels

A Theory of Love: A Novel by Margaret Bradham Thornton draws on a metaphor of entanglement theory to ask: when two people collide, are they forever attached no matter where they are? Lady Be Good marks Amber Brock‘s mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the world of the mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate and the electric nightlife of three iconic cities: New York, Miami, and Havana. Marjorie Herrera Lewis’s debut historical When the Men Were Gone: A Novel tells the inspiring based-on-a-true-story of high school teacher Tylene Wilson—a woman who surprises everyone as she breaks with tradition to become the first high school football coach in Texas—comes to life.…

Saturday, November 17, 2018 @ 5:00 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Enrique Fernández : A reading

Enrique Fernández’s Pretty to Think So weaves questions of sex, mortality, and identity with a lyricism that readers will not soon forget. Fernandez’s Cortadito: Wanderings through Cuban Cuisine is a dissertation on Cuban cuisine seen through the author’s memories of growing up in pre-revolutionary Cuba and learning the meaning and importance of the food and cooking of one’s roots.…

Sunday, November 18, 2018 @ 12:00 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Latin American Histories

Mary Jo McConahay’s The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II tells the gripping and little-known story of the fight for the allegiance of Latin America during World War II. Lisandro Perez’s Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution tells the dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenth-century New York.…

Sunday, November 18, 2018 @ 1:00 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

The Portable Island: Nonfiction on Cuba

With a Cuban Song in the Heart features the artwork from 280 album covers from Iván Acosta’s collection of over 5,000 long-playing discs. From unlikely images of historical newsmakers (Fidel Castro drinking a Coca-Cola on a public bus) to a roster of jet-setting celebrities, Ramiro Fernández’s Cuba Then is a welcome new edition of this seductive and lush photographic survey of the small island that continues to fascinate the world. Told in the words of the immigrants themselves,…

Sunday, November 18, 2018 @ 2:30 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Jewish Lives: A Reading from Nonfictions

Ellen G. Friedman‘s The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story is an account of the displacement of Polish Jews in the aftermath of World War II. Meri-Jane Rochelson’s biography Eli’s Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life tells the story of a man whose life and memory spanned two world wars, several migrations, an educational odyssey, and the massive disruption of the Holocaust.…

Sunday, November 18, 2018 @ 3:30 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Readings from New Fiction

In Brian Bandell‘s novel, Silence the Living, a former police officer carries in her bloodstream the most deadly substance on the planet, an intelligent alien microorganism that seeks to transform Earth into a habitat suitable for their aquatic species, which fled their destroyed planet. Judith Guskin‘s historical novel, of friendship, love, religious conflicts, politics, and war, Longing to Be Free: The Bear, the Eagle and the Crown, is set in 1630-1677 in colonial New England and London.…

Sunday, November 18, 2018 @ 4:30 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Readings from New Novels

In Nadine Gonzalez’s romance Exclusively Yours (Miami Dreams), lovers are thwarted by professional rivalries. In Gonzalez’s Unconditionally Mine (Miami Dreams) no one can know that Sofia’s engagement to her lying, cheating fiancé is over—until she meets gorgeous, wealthy newcomer Jonathan Gunther. Set in the powerful backdrop of the 1960s Civil Rights movement, Cheryl Mattox Berry’s Memphis Blues will test the loyalty and strength of three people whose dreams were deferred.…

November 2019

Saturday, November 23, 2019 @ 11:00 am
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Live Your Best Life

Joseph Deitch shares his lifelong pursuit of wisdom and growth in the accessible, practical, down-to-earth, Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life.…

Saturday, November 23, 2019 @ 12:00 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Live Your Best Life

Brian D. Johnson’s self-help book, Live Your Dreams Out Loud: 6 Steps to Conquer Your Fears and Achieve Your Dreams, outlines a path to success. In Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real,  Mariana Atencio digs into what makes each of us special and the ways in which we can become a force for good in a broken world. Sponsored by  tropic…

Saturday, November 23, 2019 @ 1:00 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

You Have the Power

In How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics, Teen Vogue columnist Lauren Duca shares a smart and funny guide and a much-needed reminder that young people are the ones who will change the world. Duca will be joined by Elizabeth Flock, reporter and producer for PBS NewsHour.…

Saturday, November 23, 2019 @ 2:00 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

The Three Principles of Oneness

In The Three Principles of Oneness, Anthony Stultz, a Buddhist minister, offers a scientifically sound, cosmic perspective on spirituality in the 21st century.…

Saturday, November 23, 2019 @ 3:00 pm
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Our Four-Legged Friends

R. Mark Goldstein’s Lions and Tigers and Hamsters: What Animals Large and Small Taught Me About Life, Love, and Humanity illustrates the tremendous impact animals have on our daily lives. Susannah Charleson’s Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion is an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs. In Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You, canine behaviorist Clive Wynne argues that affection is the very essence of dogs.…

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