It’s Miami Book Fair season! On Sunday, November 15, at the Miami Book Fair International, poets Jan Becker, Leenie Moore, and M.J. Fievre will create on-demand verses for passers-by on manual typewriters. The project is called the “Poem Depot,” and … Continue reading 11.15.15 Poem Depot at the Miami Book Fair International
Lit Crawl, a bar crawl with literary readings, officially began in San Francisco in 2006. But really it began thousands of years earlier when the first homo ergaster decided to crawl from cave to cave reading her poems about stone … Continue reading O, Miami Lit Crawl
2014 AWP Conference Room 606, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6 Friday, February 28, 2014 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm A trilingual reading from So Spoke the Earth, a collection of prose and poetry about pre- and post-earthquake Haiti and published by the Women Writers of Haitian Descent. Authors will share first and third-person accounts and visions of Haiti through various periods of time, and of the moments following the tragedy, exploring stories of the search for survivors and different shapes of grief and hope. Presentations in English, with some French and Haitian Creole (with translations). M.J. Fievre is the founding editor … Continue reading The Haiti I Know: So Spoke the Earth at the 2014 AWP Conference
The 10th edition of the Cent Journal is now available. It includes poems from 22 Miami Poetry Collective writers (including M.J. Fievre) and group history by founding member Scott Cunningham. Cover design by Erin Money. We love all our contributors, our folding … Continue reading Miami Poetry Collective’s 10 Cents
Five favorite books of all time, in no particular order. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: I think I first read this when I was 16, and it was one of those moments where you find yourself reading … Continue reading Nick Vagnoni on his 5 Favorite Books of All Time
Nick Vagnoni was born and raised in Key West, Florida, and currently teaches writing at Florida International University in Miami. A founding member of The Miami Poetry Collective, he has facilitated poetry workshops at New College of Florida, The Studios … Continue reading Nick Vagnoni featured at CHAIku
Friday, April 13, at 8 pm, MacArthur genius grant and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Campbell McGrath will be reading from his new book of poetry, IN THE KINGDOM OF THE SEA MONKEYS (Ecco Press/HarperCollins), at Books and Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, … Continue reading Campbell McGrath: In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys
Listen to the raw audio version of Carnations for Sonia. Quite different from the polished, published piece. This poem originally appeared in 6 Cents Journal (Miami Poetry Collective, 2010). “The Cent Journal Series: A Modern Anthology of Miami Poets, is … Continue reading Carnations for Sonia
Got a postcard from Dave*!!! Dave Landsberger is a Chicago native and former Miamian. He’s had a chapbook of his poems published called Whoa, Yeah, Baby (Floating Wolf Quarterly) and he collaborated on the chapbook BALLERZ 2k10: Poems About … Continue reading A haiku postcard from David
M.J. is a proud member of the Miami Poetry Collective, famous for its Poem Depot, a regular feature of Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk. Continue reading MPC at the Miami International Book Fair
M.J. is a proud member of the Miami Poetry Collective, famous for its Poem Depot, a regular feature of Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk. Pictures taken at Java Head Mansion, Coral Gables, where the Miami Woman’s Club held an international … Continue reading Anthony Adverse hosts the Poem Depot