Poetry Reading and Panel

MIAMI AND THE CARIBBEAN: THE VIEW FROM POETRY

Museum Lobby, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd | Transportation Options

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O, Miami presents four poets writing toward and through the Caribbean, moderated by poet Mario Ariza. O, Miami is a multi-disciplinary poetry festival that takes place during the entire month of April with the goal that every single person in Miami encounters a poem. The majority of the site-specific projects and events created for the festival are made in collaboration with citizens, artists, students, government entities, collectives and organizations. Many of the poets in Miami have roots in the Caribbean and are writing through, toward or from those identities. In this panel, several Miami poets will read their work and discuss how the Caribbean shapes them as artists and people.

Frank Báez won the 2006 Santo Domingo Book Fair First Prize for his collection of stories Págales tú a los psicoanalistas. His poetry collection Postales won the National Poetry Prize Salomé Ureña in 2009. Báez edits the online journal Ping Pong and lives in Santo Domingo.
 
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias is a poet, prose writer, and playwright. She has four books of poetry, the latest being Hilo + Hilo (2015). She received the Julio Cortázar Ibero-American Short Story Prize, the Casa de Las Américas Prize in Theater, and the Paz Prize for Poetry.
 
Fabienne Josaphat is a poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. Her debut novel, Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow, came out in 2016 from Unnamed Press.
 
Sony Ton-Aimé is a poet and teaching fellow at Kent State University in Akron, Ohio.