The O, Miami Poetry Festival and National Poetry Month are over, but poetry lives on in South Florida. From haikus in Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden to a fierce Literary Death Match battle at Purdy Lounge, O, Miami and the Knight Foundation exposed Miami-Dade County residents
Visceral spoken wordplay is in the heart and soul of any poetry slam. Slams are a competitive and fierce battle between fellow poets who rely on their voice and verses to communicate their message to the audience. On Thursday, May 19 at 7 p.m. the students at TERRA
Welcome to the final week of O, Miami – time to get poetic with James Franco. Also on tap this week? Painting poetry on public buildings, a literary death match at Purdy Lounge, the Anthology of Rap, DJ Le Spam and US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin. Read on for all the details… When: April 25 – [...]
Last night during the Abe’s Penny Live exhibition at the New World School of the Arts ArtSeen Gallery, three local poets rocked the house. Maureen Seaton, Emma Trelles and I read poems from our latest books that centered on various themes including Miami’s nightlife, The Queen of South Beach,
Even though we only live 10 miles apart, I first met teacher, poet and The Rumpus poetry editor Brian Spears on Facebook. Where else would two poets meet? Brian Spears, like many of us, has lived an interesting life. He is a former forklift driver, Wal-Mart floor waxer and insurance, furniture, home electronics and automobile [...]
SpeakOUT, Tigertail’s Gay & Lesbian Teen Spoken Word Project, welcomes Lenelle Moïse for a week of workshops and performance. Moise is a lesbian and award-winning Haitian-American poet laureate, playwright, essayist, composer and nationally touring artist who creates intimate, fiery politicized texts about the intersection
This year Emma Trelles won the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize for her forthcoming collection of poems Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) and I can’t wait to get my copy. Silvia Curbelo, 2010 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize judge, wrote that Tropicalia’s “vast creative energy drew from many different sources to shape a new hybrid most [...]
When I think about the question “what brings a poem to life”, Tigertail and the Miami Poetry Collective (MPC) have answered it with their new poetry annual. On Thursday, October 14th, Tigertail and the MPC will celebrate the launch of their 8th…
Libby Larsen. (Photo by Ann Marsden) It’s shaping up to be a season of premieres here: Music from Richard Danielpour and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich later this season, works from University of Miami student composers (Oct. 7) and six 10-minute chamber operas from UM faculty (Oct. 13) during the upcoming Festival Miami, and on Oct. 10 [...]
