Seven-time James Beard Award–winning author Madhur Jaffrey shares the delectable, healthful, vegetable- and grain-based foods enjoyed around the Indian subcontinent, in Vegetarian India: A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking. In conversation with chef Ayesha D’Mello.…

Celebrity chef Doreen Colondres’s cookbook, La Cocina No Muerde (The Kitchen Doesn’t Bite) shares her secrets of how to stock your kitchen, how to shop wisely and bring home in-season ingredients, how to involve children in the process, and how to perfect techniques. In Lorena Garcia‘s New Taco Classics, one of America’s favorite chefs gives a healthy and exciting twist on the best street foods of Latin America. Historian and expert on the cultural implications of food on Latin American culture,…

Matthew Gavin Frank takes readers on a richly illustrated culinary tour of the United States through fifty signature dishes, and a radical exploration of our gastronomic heritage in The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food. My Organic Life: How A Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today is the story of an unheralded culinary pioneer, Nora Pouillon, who made it her mission to bring delicious, wholesome foods to the American table. Toni Tipton-Martin’s The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks examines more than 150 black cookbooks that range from a rare 1827 house servant’s manual,…

In Virgin Territory, acclaimed food writer-journalist and Mediterranean expert Nancy Harmon Jenkins explores the seductive world of extra-virgin olive oil; in The Four Seasons of Pasta, she has teamed with her daughter master-chef Sara Jenkins for a unique round-the-year cookbook celebrating simple, easy pasta dishes from Italy and elsewhere.…

The American Diabetes Association teams up with best-selling author Linda Gassenheimer to cook up Quick and Easy Chicken, an affordable, easy-to-follow collection of chicken recipes, and Delicious One-Pot Dishes, family friendly dishes that are a snap to prepare–both designed for people with diabetes or prediabetes.…

From ABC News nutrition and wellness correspondent David Zinczenko, comes Zero Belly Cookbook: 150+ Delicious Recipes to Flatten Your Belly, Turn Off Your Fat Genes, and Help Keep You Lean for Life!, a collection of recipes that will teach anyone how to lose weight fast, and get healthier in just minutes a day.…

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 generations, the dishes detailed in Nancie McDermott’s Southern Soups & Stews: More Than 75 Recipes from Burgoo and Gumbo to Etouffée and Fricassee are cherished and shared at family gatherings,…

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 Shirley.…

Passionate and irreverent, poet Kim Addonizio‘s collection, Mortal Trash, transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. The poems in Catherine Bowman’s latest poetry collection, Can I Finish, Please?, are shape-shifting acts, lyric interruptions that crave and resist completion, where the mutable self and the world are made and unmade over and over. Denise Duhamel‘s poetry collection, Blowout, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, is both a celebration and mourning of romantic love.…

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 and bilingual publication for a book of poems written in Spanish. This event will gather the six winners of the 2015 prizes. Moderated by Denise Duhamel. Joshua Bennett’s mesmerizing debut collection of poetry,…

Elisa Albo’s collection of poetry, Passage to America, navigates the shoals of family history, geopolitics and the immigrant experience with an acute attention to detail. Sandra M. Castillo’s collection of poems, Eating Moors and Christians, probes the complicated convergence of memory and truth. In House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner of the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with remarkable lyric precision.…

Form blends with content in Chinaka Hodge‘s Dated Emcees, where she examines her love life through the lens of hip-hop’s best known orators, characters, archetypes and songs, creating a new and inventive narrative about the music that shaped the craggy heart of a young woman poet, just as it also changed the global landscape of pop. Janine Joseph‘s poetry collection, Driving Without a License, is a disquieting narrative of an undocumented young woman from the Philippines who navigates risk and threat.…

In her poetry collection, Nec(Romantic), Cathleen Chambless uses the rhythms of nursery rhymes as well as traditional forms to tip over the toy box of childhood, storm through addiction, and wrestle the elegaic mode. In Sparrow’s book of poetry, How to Survive the Coming Collapse of Civilization (And Other Helpful Hints), the poet has reinvented the post-apocalyptic survival manual. In Zebra Feathers, Morris Stegosaurus offers readers a romp through a world of plush anthropomorphic animals,…

Mia Leonin’s collection, Chance Born, wakens in us the miracle and mystery of becoming, being, and belonging — common to our shared humanity across cultures. Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. Donna Aza‘s The Woman Who Knew, examines the dissolution of a long-time marriage. ReadCaribbean programs created in partnership with Sosyete Koukouy, Bocas Literary Festival and ReadJamaica,…

A finalist for the National Book Award, Monica Youn’s book of poetry, Blackacre, the author explores questions of racial identity, culpability, bereavement, fertility and barrenness as she attempts to understand her own desire—her own struggle—to conceive a child. In Joy Harjo’s long-awaited collection, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Amit Majmudar‘s Dothead is an exploration of identity,…

Poets with roots in Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana, all pushing the boundaries of form and subject in contemporary Caribbean poetry. Ancient Greek myth, Hindu scriptures, Shakespeare, sci-fi, and the urgencies of the digital age meet in the work of these writers, crafting a new language for the realities of a perpetually New World. Shivanee Ramlochan is one of the new poets featured in Coming Up Hot: 8 New Poets from the Caribbean, which introduces new writers from Jamaica,…

Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century in any language. Now his work can be enjoyed afresh with two remarkable new translations for the twenty-first century. Poet, translator, and essayist Forrest Gander presents the translated volume, Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems originally composed on napkins, playbills, receipts, and more. Honorary Consul of Chile Mariela Griffor captures Neruda’s most audacious and ambitious epic poem, Canto General,…

Poet Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello examines the cultural and filial duties that inform both grief and wanderlust for the immigrant in Hour of the Ox, winner of the Donald Hall Prize. In Rapture: Poems, winner of the Walt Whitman Award for poetry, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during the Vietnam War. Noah Warren’s collection of poetry, The Destroyer in the Glass,…

Jen Karetnick‘s poetry collection American Sentencing is an examination of the physical body and the various indignities and ailments from which it can suffer; her collection The Treasures That Prevail is about climate change and its effects on Miami. Julie Marie Wade’s Six: Poems plumbs six essential aspects of human experience that have shaped us all: art, language, desire, vocation, faith, and life-changing love. Rita Maria Martinez’s The Jane and Bertha in Me,…

2 day workshop: Sat., August 26 – Sun., August 27, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Learn the special craft and genre concerns of science fiction/speculative fiction and the direction(s) the field is headed in this two-day workshop with Sora Edwards-Thro. A special emphasis is on the Caribbean, but the workshop is open to ALL writers, and accessible to French-Creole speakers. This workshop will focus on the poetics of the unreal, the conventions and tropes of the Black Fantastic, the Grotesque, the Afro-Surreal,…

De la voluntad de Ediciones Suburbano y de Proa Films para rendir homenaje y apoyar a autores y cinematógrafos locales nace la iniciativa Miami Film Machine. Esta noche se proyectarán 4 cortometrajes realizados por directores de cine de Miami, a partir de historias escritas por autores latinos locales, que reflejan la vida de los hispanos en la ciudad. La proyección de los cortos forma parte de las actividades de la edición del 2017 de la Fiesta de la Lectura, una iniciativa creada por la Fundación Cuatrogatos. …

Poet Gustavo Adolfo Aybar explores baseball in his poetry collection, We Seek Asylum, as an allegorical meditation on the battle for the soul of the Dominican Republic. Actor, writer, and poet Yrsa Daley-Ward’s collection, bone, details her experiences as a first-generation black British woman working through abuse, vulnerability, and redemption. Poet and performer Aja Monet’s My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter is an ode to mothers, daughters, sisters tackling gentrification, genocide, and grief.…

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 and bilingual publication for a book of poems written in Spanish. This event gathers the six winners of the 2016 prizes: William Brewer, Chelsea Dingman, Sasha Pimentel, sam sax, Jeffrey Schultz, and Legna Rodriguez Iglesias.…

Frank Bidart’s latest collection, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016, encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst.  Mai Der Vang’s Afterland recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands of refugees seeking asylum. Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities investigates inherited forms of love and family—all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives.…

Chen Chen’s poetry collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, winner of the 2016 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, investigates inherited forms of love and family—all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead is an astonishing collection of poetry, one that confronts America— where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle. Harvard English professor Stephen Burt (who also goes by Steph and Stephanie) presents a brilliant and candid exploration of gender and identity in his latest poetry collection,…

C.M. Clark documents a dystopian journey along the fabled Silk Road in The Five Snouts that is at once alien, mesmerizing, and familiar. In Maria Sings, Catherine Esposito Prescott follows the main character through cancer treatment, raising questions of femininity and the desire to heal. Rudi Goblen’s A Bag of Halos and Horns is inspired by love, family, and mass transit to reach toward honesty and hope. In Meet Me Here at Dawn,…

Four working poets draw inspiration from specific landscapes: Jim Daniels’ Rowing Inland takes readers back to the Metro Detroit of his youth and then accelerates toward the future. Michael Hettich maps out worlds of surprising unpredictability in memory of The Frozen Harbor. In Red Deer, Anne Marie Macari explores the prehistoric caves of France and Spain, communing with the lives and art of those who once inhabited them. Patrick Rosal examines race in America and explores the possibilities and limitations of untapped multi-racial histories in Brooklyn Antediluvian.…

Denise Duhamel takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion in her new poetry collection, Scald. In Magdalene, Marie Howe imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as spiritual, sensual, and searching for meaning in a contemporary landscape. Patricia Smith’s volume, Incendiary Art, confronts the role of witness regarding tyrannies against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers. …

Victor Hernandez Cruz—two time World Heavyweight Poetry Champion—presents his latest collection, Beneath the Spanish, which tracks the way that languages intersect and inform each other, and how language and music shapes experience. Sponsored by:…

Tongo Eisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet influenced by poets such as Gil Scott-Heron, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde. In Heaven is All Goodbyes, politics, surrealism, and spiritualism converge with gangsterism, revolution, and perseverance in poems addressing state violence, police brutality, the prison industrial-complex, as experienced by African Americans throughout history. In conversation with author and journalist Kathie Klarreich.…

Shara McCallum’s fifth poetry book, Madwoman, explores the world of relationships, race, and colonialism through the lens of her Jamaican womanhood. Canouan Suite and Other Pieces reflects Philip Nanton’s storytelling humor, setting text in creative tension with Caribbean artwork. In Voices Carry, Mervyn Taylor presents poems that travelers unpack like suitcases from Pakistan, Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad, far from what used to be home. ReadCaribbean programs created in partnership with Sosyete Koukouy, Ayiti Images,…

Safia Elhillo’s The January Children mythologizes family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan’s history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Magic City Gospel by Ashley M. Jones is a love song to Birmingham that takes readers on an historical, geographical, cultural, and personal journey through Alabama. In A Lesser Love, E. J. Koh’s poetry is born from the pain of immigrant parents, becoming an inheritor of Korea’s violent history.…

Presented by #ReadCaribbean 2-day workshop: Sat., August 25 – Sun., August 26 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. How do we write comics that celebrate diversity and cultural dynamism so that our stories are both universal and specific? How do we translate our skills as writers into the graphic medium and include fully realized characters of different backgrounds, with flaws and challenges they must overcome and learn to cope with, characters who possess their own hopes, dreams and agency and are not merely defined by one or two characteristics?…

In The Shallows, Stacey Lynn Brown explores complex legacies of family, race, and illness in the American South. At the core of Libby Burton’s Soft Volcano lie the marks of woe and time left upon the body after love is strained or abandoned. Jodie Hollander charts a story of familial understanding and reconciliation in My Dark Horses. Erika Meitner plumbs human resilience in the face of disaster and uncertainty, refusing to settle for easy answers in Holy Moly Carry Me.…

Celebrate the 2018 National Book Award Nominees and Finalists in Poetry, in recognition of some of the most outstanding poetry collections published in the U.S. this year. Moderated by Denise Duhamel.  Sponsored by…

People often say that poetry is dead, but these four Florida authors prove that poetry is very much alive and well. P. Scott Cunningham explores contradiction and revelation in Ya Te Veo, remixing everything from Garth Brooks to Wu-Tang Clan. The poems in Steve Kronen’s Homage to Mistress Oppenheimer tackle the spaces between science and God, between the apocalyptic and the everyday. Mia Leonin’s Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child traces the story of Micaela,…

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 for Poetry, which ensures bilingual publication for a book of poems written in Spanish. This 40th anniversary event gathers the five winners of 2017: Lindsay Bernal, Jos Charles, Dominique Christina, J. Michael Martinez, and GennaRose Nethercott.…

Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come for Us grapples with questions of sexuality, race, violence, and healing. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo examines the fallout of immigration, the illusion of the American dream, and the latent anxieties of living in a queer brown undocumented body in Cenzontle. Tiana Clark delves in to the physical and psychic traumas of the South through personal and public histories in I Can’t Talk about the Trees Without the Blood. In Citizen Illegal,…

The BreakBeat Poets: Black Girl Magic edited by Mahogany L. Browne, focuses on some of the most exciting Black women writing today, breaking up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club and asserting the truth that the cypher is a feminine form. In Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence compiled by Brian Clements, poems focusing on the crisis of gun violence in America are followed by a response from activists, politicians, and survivors.…

John Freeman’s Maps charts legacies of ruin and construction, illness and memory, empire and experience from Rio de Janeiro to Rome. Barbara Hamby hits the road hard in this contemporary Bird Odyssey, from Siberia to New Orleans with Elvis, Tolstoy, Homer, and more. Aimee Nezhukumatathil creates a thorough registry of the earth’s magic in Oceanic, studying the many forms of love with reverence and sincerity. Maureen Seaton, Fisher meditates on wilderness,…

Ruth Behar explores the sacrifices of her exiled Cuban ancestors alongside her own vulnerabilities in Everything I Kept/Todo Lo Que Guardé. Loretta Collins Klobah reveals the secret heart of Puerto Rico in Ricantations, where shiny modernity gives way to spirit presences before and after Hurricane Maria. I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara is Rajiv Mohabir’s translation of the only known literary work written in 1916 by an indentured servant in British Guayana. Sponsored by…

Duy Doan examines the ambiguities and tensions that mark our efforts to know our histories, our loved ones, and ourselves in We Play a Game. Joseph Legaspi’s Threshold explores the fluidity of gender, time, and love in the seemingly perpetual in-between. In Not Here, Hieu Minh Nguyen navigates whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia in poems that ache with both loneliness and hope. Emily Jungmin Yoon’s A Cruelty Specific to Our Species confronts the histories of sexual violence against women,…

In a world where facts are easily manufactured and ruin is easily achieved, Tom Sleigh’s House of Fact, House of Ruin urges toward a different freedom. In Things as It Is, Chase Twichell lifts up the joy of the moment while mourning a changing world. Kevin Young speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, and vice versa in Brown, recalling his own Kansas boyhood alongside the histories of Emmett Till and Booker Wright.…

The National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards recognizes some of the most outstanding poetry collections published in the U.S. each year. Moderated by poet Denise Duhamel.  Dan Beachy-Quick, Variations on Dawn and Dusk Jericho Brown, The Tradition Toi Derricotte, “I”: New and Selected Poems Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic Ariana Reines, A Sand Book Brian Teare, Doomstead Days Sponsored by …

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 event gathers 2018’s six winners: Christopher Kondrich, Rosalie Moffett, Daniel Poppick, Jon Sands, Jake Skeets, and Paz Prize recipient Johanny Vázquez Paz. …

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,…

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.…

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,…

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,…

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…

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,…

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,…

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,…

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.…

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,…

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,…