From rare collectibles worth thousands to used paperbacks going for a couple of bucks a pop, this weekend’s Twin Cities Rare and Antiquarian Book Fair at the State Fairgrounds looks promising. It’s the largest rare book show in the Upper Midwest, and this year there will be more than 60 stalls of books to browse: [...]
This year the Tigertail WordSpeak team, coached by director/performer/writer Teo Castellanos and poet/educator Angela Kardos, will compete again in Brave New Voices, the Olympics of international youth poetry slam festivals.
Book lovers take note: two big literary launches are underway this week. First up: Tonight, in the underground retail space below Nina’s Coffee Café of St. Paul’s Cathedral Hill neighborhood, the brand-new Subtext bookstore will hold its first-ever in-store reading. The event features an impressive line-up of local writerly talent: Minnesota Book Award-winner Ed Bok [...]
Since opening its doors to artists and the community, the Little Haiti Cultural Center (LHCC) has steadily become a vital cultural landmark for the region. Although its mission is to showcase and expose Afro-Carribbean art, culture and entertainment to the community, the center also provides vital
Now here’s something a little unusual to start off your long Memorial Day weekend: a piano slam. Tomorrow night at the Knight Concert Hall, the Dranoff International Two-Piano Foundation of Miami presents the fourth in its series of these music, poetry and dance concerts, which is the final event in an annual project involving 70 Miami-Dade [...]
Sometimes the only poetry we understand is the poetry of love and loss, relationships and sex. We can enter these poems more easily because of their universal themes. We’ve all fallen in love or we have fooled ourselves at least once that it was love we fell into. As we enter theses poems through the [...]
Even though the tourist season is winding down in Miami, the performing arts calendar is packed with a diverse schedule of (almost overlapping) performances that mirrors the diversity of our community. The only drawback: you’ll need a few hits espresso to keep you going as you bolt across town to see all of these performances [...]
The prototypical poet is a creature of the dark, naturally to be found haunting lowlight bars and passing days shuttered behind drawn curtains. The prototypical poetry reading is a heavy affair, most usually held in a drinking establishment and lubricated on all sides by “poetry juice.” There was nothing prototypical about the poetry reading held [...]
As the sun sets on Miami this Thursday and the crescent moon rises, the Miami Dance Festival will open on the grounds of the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens, where a choreography of movement by the Florida Dance Theatre will take shape under
Matt Mauch, the founder and host of a yearly blowout in honor of National Poetry Month, calls the Great Twin Cities Poetry Read a celebration of community and of poetry, “although I’m not sure in what order. It’s what the poet Lucille Clifton called ‘a gathering of the tribe.’” And based on what I saw [...]
