Special pre-Fair event celebrating Jamaican Independence! Join Olive Senior, Jamaica’s poet laureate, the Tallawah Mento Band, and The Jamaican Folk Revue for storytelling and music, followed by a panel with Oliver Mair, consul general of Jamaica to the Southern U.S., and Jamaican dub poet Malachi Smith. Media Partners …
Nick Douglas, author of Finding Octave: The Untold Story of Two Creole Families and Slavery in Louisiana, will be joined by Patricia J. Braynon, genealogist and Black Archives board chair, and Marvin Ellis, MBF African diaspora genealogy/family history program chair. Media Partners…
The 2023 Big Read Miami keynote address features award-winning poet, educator, and community gardener Ross Gay on this year’s featured title, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. In his award-winning poetry collection, Gay demonstrates the practice of gratitude while never losing sight of the loss that animates it. Animated by what he has called the “discipline of gratitude,” the collection considers sorrow’s potential, grounded in the rhythms and abundance of the natural world: the compost that gives way to rich soil,…