| 1 | When: April 1 - 11:00am What: O, Pening Ceremony Where: >>>Adrienne Arsht Center | Thomson Plaza for the Arts Who: Staff and Board of O, Miami plus local political dignitaries Info: Join us for our opening ceremony, in which we will declare that all utterances, both written and spoken, in Miami-Dade County, for the month of April, are poetic. |
| 1 | When: April 1 - 7:00pm What: Eating Our Words Where: >>>Boater's Grill Who: Tracy K. Smith Info: Los Angeles's lauded Eating Our Words, hosted by Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Heather Taylor, comes to Miami. Join us at Boater's Grill on Key Biscayne for a traditional Cuban pig roast and poetry reading by Tracy K. Smith! $30/seat ($20/seat for students) includes the pig roast and buffet. |
| 1 | When: April 1 - 8:00pm What: Tigertail WordSpeak Where: >>>Books & Books (Coral Gables) Who: Sunni Patterson Info: New Orleans-based (from the lower Ninth Ward), African-American performer and award-winning poet Sunni Patterson performs her stirring lyrics in a passionate performance. |
| 2 | When: April 2 - 7:00pm What: Abe's Penny Live Where: >>>NWSA ArtSeen Gallery (Wynwood) Who: Denise Duhamel & Gabby Calvocoressi Info: Abe's Penny Live opens its month-long installation, built by sculpture students at the New World School of the Arts. The gallery will be hosting photographs from four Miami photographers, with built-in writing rooms where visitors can write responses to the works. With readings by Denise Duhamel and Gabby Calvocoressi. |
| 5 | When: April 5 - 8:30pm What: Sir Archibald Whistler Presents The Honest Liars Club Where: >>>Luna Star Cafe Who: FIU MFA students Info: Florida International University's Creative Writing department's reading series, featuring graduating MFA students reading from their theses. |
| 6 | When: April 6 - 7:00pm What: New World Symphony | Inside the Music Where:>>> New World Center | Performance Hall Who: Teddy Abrams, Anna Davidson, NWS Fellows Info: A special edition of the New World Symphony's "Inside the Music" series, focusing on the nexus of poetry and art music. >>>Click here to order tickets. |
| 6 | When: April 6 - 7:00pm What: Wine Down Wednesday Where:>>> HistoryMiami Who: Oscar Fuentes Combo Info: Oscar Fuentes and his jazz combo will perform as part of a special O, Miami edition of HistoryMiami's Wine Down Wednesday. |
| 7 | When: April 7 - 7:00pm What: NOX Where: >>>Moore Building Who: Anne Carson & Rashaun Mitchell Info: National Book Award finalist Anne Carson reads from her latest book, Nox, accompanied by dancers from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, choreographed by Rashaun Mitchell, with artist Robert Currie and music by Ben Miller. |
| 8 | When: April 8 - 7:00pm What: STACKS Where: >>>Moore Building Who: Anne Carson & Jonah Bokaer Info: A second night of collaborations between poet Anne Carson and modern dancers. Choreographed by Jonah Bokaer. >>>Click here to purchase tickets. |
| 9 | When: April 9 - 1:00pm What: Dérive Miami Where: Wynwood (meeting place TBA) Who: KC Culver & Billy Friebele Info: “Under the cobblestones, the beach!” Join us for a Miamian take on the Situationist practice of the dérive. Poets and guests will drifting through Wynwood and writing poems about their experiences. Afterward, an online map of the routes taken and poems written will be created Friebele. >>>Click here to RSVP. |
| 9 | When: April 9 - 6:00pm What: Abe's Penny Live Activation Events Where: >>>NWSA ArtSeen Gallery (Wynwood) Who: Craig Saper, Maggie Hasspacher, Parker Phillips, and Eliza Bishop Info: A series of new and experimental performances combining poetry with other modes of public performance, including talks, readings, and music. |
| 9 | When: April 9 - 7:00pm-10:00pm What: God Loves Poetry | Opening Reception Where: >>>O Cinema (Wynwood) Who: Kevin Cobb & Andres Almeida Info: God Loves Poetry inverts negativity by using a little bit of creativity, humor and love—three of the most powerful tools used to combat hate. These tools turn the hate-speech-filled press releases from the Westboro Baptist Church into positive, funny, and often poignant poems. The interactive exhibit at O Cinema opens with a free reception held during the Wynwood Art Walk. Participants can also create and add their own work of poetry to the month-long exhibition. |
| 10 | When: April 10 - 4:00pm What: The Hedgehog and the Fox Where: >>>Lester’s Bar Who: Phong Bui Info: Phong Bui, publisher of the non-for profit, free paper the Brooklyn Rail, will speak on the topic of Diderot’s Selected Letters from a starting point of Isaiah Berlins famous essay the Hedgehog and the Fox. Please rsvp to >>>info@lestersmiami.com as space may be limited. |
| 11 | When: April 11 - noon What: Poem Drop Where:>>>231 Santillane Avenue Who: Jonathan Lizcano & Ximena Izquierdo Info: Look up to the skies! Poems are falling! Get here quick! |
| 11 | When: April 11 - 7:30pm What: Craft Talk: Energy & Vision in the Poetic Line Where: >>>Bas Fisher Invitational Who: Dennis Hinrichsen Info: Florida Center for the Literary Arts visiting poet Dennis Hinrichsen presents a craft talk, as a part of Denise Delgado's Free School for Writing. The talk is on how to use the poetic line effectively on the horizontal to engage the reader with music and vision, and then how to carry the reader via the line break down the page to drive the poem forward to its inevitable close, looking at a variety of ways of accomplishing this. |
| 12 | When: April 12 - 6:00pm What: Young Translators Where:>>> NWSA ArtSeen Gallery Who: Angel Cuadra & Jessica Machado, Lucia Leao Info: Miami-based poets and translators read their works. Spanish-English and Portuguese-English. Featuring Cuban exile poet Angel Cuadra. Doors to exhibition at 6, reading at 7. Free and open to the public. |
| 13 | When: April 13 - 7:00pm What: Now Taste This - Reading Where: BLT Steak at the Betsy Who: Jen Karetnick & Nick Vagnoni Info: Two local poets will read poems focusing on restaurants and food as a literary apertif for the meals of guests at the Betsy BLT. Reading is FREE. For dinner, reservations recommended: call 786.369.5426 or >>>make your reservation online. |
| 13 | When: April 13 - 7:00pm What: Artist's Talk: Sam Winston Where: >>>University of Miami Richter Library | Special Collections Who: Sam Winston Info: Fountainhead Residency artist in residence Sam Winston will give a talk about his text-based works and process. Free and open to the public, but capacity is limited. >>>Click here to RSVP. |
| 13 | When: April 13 - 9:00pm What: Heebster CHAIku Where: >>>Next@19 Who: hosted by Daniel Reskin Info: An evening of live music and Jewish-themed original poetry. Admission is $10/$6 (students, seniors, artists) at the door or >>>by clicking here. |
| 14 | When: April 14 - 6:30pm What: Poetry Everywhere Where: >>>Miami-Dade Public Library System | Main Branch Who: Liam Callanan & Campbell McGrath Info: Liam Callanan, executive producer of Poetry Everywhere, and award-winning poet Campbell McGrath will host an evening of screenings, readings, and discussions dedicated to poetry in the public sphere. |
| 15 | When: April 15 - 1:00pm What: Writing the Room Where: >>>ArtCenter/ South Florida (South Beach) Who: Carol Todaro Info: At her installation, "Writing the Room," at 924 Lincoln Road, Carol Todaro leads a group of local poets and artists in two hours of performances that activate the space. |
| 16 | When: April 16 - 9:00am What: O, Miami Medial Caesura Where: South Pointe Park (South Beach) Who: Any and everyone! Info: Join us on the beach for three hours of silence to mark the mid-point of our poetic month. |
| 16 | When: April 16 - 2:00pm What: Sweatstock Where: >>>Sweat Records (5505 NE 2nd Ave) Who: Abel Folgar, Joe Lapin, + more TBA Info: O, Miami will be providing poetic content throughout the Sweatstock festivities, featuring a reading by Miami's rock and/or rollingest young poets at 2pm. |
| 17 | When: April 17 - 1:30pm What: Flower of Life Where: >>>CasaLin Who: Eliza Bishop Info: In a temporary installation, Eliza Bishop will interpret gifts from the natural landscape (leaving no ecological trace of her presence) to reveal the universal template of a sacred geometrical shape, The Flower of Life, a symbol that contains all the building blocks of the universe, called the Platonic Solids, using it as a metaphor to illustrate the connectedness of all life and spirit within the universe. Visitors will also receive a letter-pressed, hand-sewn edition of one of Bishop's books. |
| 19 | When: April 19 - 6:00pm What: Locals Reading Where: >>>NWSA ArtSeen Gallery Who: Neil de la Flor, Emma Trelles, & Maureen Seaton Info: Three local poets read from their newest books. Doors to exhibition at 6, reading at 7. |
| 20 | When: April 20 - 7:00pm What: Argentinian Avant-Garde Where: >>>MoCA North Miami Who: Stuart Krimko, Fernanda Laguna, & Cecilia Pavon Info: Talk and reading with two leading figures of the modern poetry scene in Buenos Aires, with their translator. Bi-lingual event (Spanish/English). Cost: museum admission. |
| 21 | When: April 21 – 7:00pm What: Miami Poets Soirée Where: >>>Pinecrest Branch Library Who: moderated by Tere Starr Info: Join the "Miami Poets," Miami’s chapter of the >>>Florida State Poets Association for an evening to celebrate all things poetic. Bring your poems to read (yours or those of your favorite poets). We often get philosophical, discussing what poetry means, and best of all, we share how poetry enhances our lives. |
| 21 | When: April 21 - 10:00pm What: Cinema Sounds Where: >>>O Cinema Who: Abel Folgar Info: Special poetry trailers will screen, and local poet Abel Folgar will read his poems, as a part of O Cinema's Cinema Sounds evening. |
| 22 | When: April 22 - 12:00pm What: AIRIE @ The Fairchild Where: >>>Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Who: Anne McCrary Sullivan, Michael Hettich, + 3 more tba Info: Poets from Everglades National Park's artists residency program will read their poetry in the beautiful scenery of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. |
| 22 | When: April 22-25 - 7:00pm What: Film Screening: Poetry Where: >>>Miami Beach Cinematheque Info: Film screening. Lee Chang-dong's follow-up to his acclaimed Secret Sunshine is a masterful study of the subtle empowerment—and moral compass—of an elderly woman. A sixty-something woman, faced with a crippling medical diagnosis and the discovery of a heinous family crime, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class. In Korean with English subtitles. |
| 22 | When: April 22 - 6:00pm What: Aberrant Language and the Design of Everydayness Where: >>>The Wolfsonian-FIU Who: Matthew Abess Info: Following the 6pm gallery tour, Matthew Abess will introduce Rewriting the World and engage with the audience about matters of poetry, persuasion, and the language of everyday life. Wine reception to follow; event is free and open to the public. For more information, >>>click here or contact >>>Julieth Dabdoub. |
| 23 | When: April 23 - 8:00pm What: Borscht Film Festival Where: >>>Adrienne Arsht Center Info: Poetry trailers will run before the films being screened at the Borscht Film Festival. |
| 24 | When: April 24 - 7:30pm What: Poets of the Unreeled: Outdoor Movietelling Where: >>>The Dorsch Gallery Who: Walter Lew + shadoWord poets Info: Eight Miamian and Californian poets perform their own scripts to excerpts from famous films, TV episodes, and music videos projected in the Dorsch’s yard. Drawing on the history of live voice-acting and narration of films (the katsuben stars of Japan, anticolonial pyônsa of Korea, Weimar-Germany Kinoehrzähler, etc.), these works move CinePoesis to a whole new level. With electronic musical accompaniment by Eden Grey and clips from archival benshi and pyônsa performances. |
| 26 | When: April 26 - 7:00pm What: Abe's Penny Live Closing Where: >>>NWSA ArtSeen Gallery Who: Music by Raffa Jo, Cocktails by Hendrick's Info: We celebrate the final chance for local poets to write poems in our student-made photography/writing room installations with performances by a couple local favorite music groups. |
| 27 | When: April 27 - 7:00pm What: Poetry & Poesia Where: >>>New World Center | SunTrust Pavilion Who: Forrest Gander, Victor Rodriguez-Nunez & Kate Hedeen Info: Bi-lingual (Spanish/English). >>>Click here to purchase tickets from the New World Symphony Box Office. |
| 28 | When: April 28 - 7:00pm What: Yale Anthology of Rap Where: >>>New World Center | Performance Hall Who: Adam Bradley, Adrian Castro, Adrian Matejka + special guests Monie Love and Kool Moe Dee Info: Nationally renowned poets and MCs share a reading of lyrics and poems, celebrating the nexus of poetry and rap. >>>Click here to purchase tickets from the New World Symphony Box Office. |
| 28 | When: April 28 - 10:00pm What: Opium Magazine's Literary Death Match Where: >>>Purdy Lounge Who: Judges: Ben Greenman, Andrew Whiteman, Patricia Engel Contestants: Matt Gajewski, Dave Landsberger, Hialeah Haiku, and Mary Sheffield. Info: Opium Magazine presents its first Miami edition of the internationally acclaimed Literary Death Match. Celebrity judges rate local performers in a winner-take-all literary talent show. Admission free. Presented in conjunction with Allography. >>>Click here to RSVP |
| 29 | When: April 29 - 5:30pm What: Poetry in the Park Where: >>>Lincoln Park Who: Talking Head Transmitters, and the Miami Poetry Collective. Info: Poetic happenings in Lincoln Park, leading up to the reading in the New World Center. |
| 29 | When: April 29 - 7:30pm What: Poetry & Persona Where: >>>New World Center | SunTrust Pavilion Who: James Franco, Tony Hoagland, with Campbell McGrath Info: >>>Click here to purchase tickets from the New World Symphony Box Office. |
| 29 | When: April 29 - 9:30pm What: Broken Social Spam Where: >>>Purdy Lounge Who: Andrew Whiteman (Broken Social Scene) & DJ Le Spam (Spam All-Stars) Info: A special night of experimental poetry, featuring DJ Le Spam's epically deep collection of poetry vinyl. Admission free. Presented in conjunction with Allography. >>>Click here to RSVP |
| 30 | When: April 30 - 3:00pm What: Poetry & Violence Where: >>>New World Center | SunTrust Pavilion Who: Jill McDonough, Brian Turner, & Raul Zurita Info: A discussion and reading of poetry written for contexts of political violence. >>>Click here to purchase tickets from the New World Symphony Box Office. |
| 30 | When: April 30 - 5:30pm What: Poetry in the Park Where: >>>Lincoln Park Who: Talking Head Transmitters, Miami Poetry Collective Info: Poetic happenings leading up to the night's reading in New World Center. |
| 30 | When: April 30 - 7:00pm What: US Poet Laureate Reading Where: >>>New World Center | SunTrust Pavilion Who: W.S. Merwin, Carla Faesler Info: A reading with the current US Poet Laureate. With Mexican poet Carla Faesler, presenting video and projection poems, along with traditional poems. Bi-lingual (English/Spanish) reading. >>>Click here to purchase tickets from the New World Symphony Box Office. |