I want to shout it out, leap up and down and tell the whole world, or Miami at least, that everyone should enroll their son and daughter, niece and nephew—and even the neighbor’s kids—in Living Equality Through Arts & Performance (L.E.A.P.). L.E.A.P. is six-month GLBTQ youth arts enrichment and mentorship project for 14-18
Despite Tropical Storm Sandy’s feigned threats to ruin our weekend, a storm of cultural events will unfold across South Florida — rain or shine — from Miami Nice Jazz Festival at the Gusman Center (October 26-28) to Art Live Fair
After 39 years of trying to speak fluent Spanish, I give up. But, I’m fluent in Spanglish, which I believe is way more fun than Spanish or English because I have to use my body as well as my mouth to communicate what I want to say. El Field, which is the Spanglish version of [...]
Sun Yung Shin’s second poetry collection, “Rough, and Savage” from Coffeehouse Press, is simultaneously alluring and caustic, lovely and mournful, ambitious in both its moral ambition and literary invention. Shin’s poems deal in pain and love and alienation, but she weaves those well-worn themes into something fresh, a contemporary fairy tale in verse about the [...]
Every day poetry has the power to move us. It can speak for us and to us in ways that can’t be easily understood or quantified. The power of poetry is intuitive and it lives somewhere between the soul and the stars. In many ways,
For twelve years, “Rain Taxi Review of Books” has hosted the Twin Cities Book Festival. It’s the literary event of the season in these parts, and it’s happening this Saturday. The whole Minnesota books community turns out for this fall showstopper – authors, publishers, lit mags and comics artists, booksellers and bibliophiles of all stripes [...]
Miami is transforming before our eyes, becoming a mecca for artists, drawing crowds of people hungry for culture. Few events in Miami are so eagerly anticipated as the Miami Book Fair, an annual, weeklong celebration of local, country-wide and international writers both new
When photographer and filmmaker Mike Hazard (a.k.a. “Media Mike”) moved to Lowertown in 1999, his new place was less than a block from the downtown St. Paul Farmer’s Market, so it was natural to incorporate a stop there into his routine. With all its townie charm, bustle and sheer vitality, he’s found documenting the market’s [...]
In Aimé Cesairé’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, the Martiniquan poet writes: “The only thing worth beginning: the end of the world of course!” Of course! What? I had no idea what Cesairé was talking about until I heard Cornell West lecture last year at the University of Miami. During that lecture,
With the start of a new arts season, my inbox is just stuffed with press releases for festivals and public art projects, various and sundry launches and shows around town. With all that’s going on, don’t let this weekend’s Western Sculpture Park Festival pass you by. Western Sculpture Park’s annual festival is modest, relative to [...]
