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O, Miami has guided South Florida through National Poetry month for more than a decade. Now they've teamed up with Apple Maps for a guide to poetic places in Dade county.
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Houston Cypress joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about how plant medicine and translation from Miccosukee to English made him a poet. His work combines art and environmentalism with the Love the Everglades Movement. He’s also an artist in residence at Oolite Arts.
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Poet and educator Caridad Moro-Gronlier joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about life and poetry. Moro-Gronlier is the author of the book "Tortillera," which examines how language, culture and place put expectations on sexuality and identity. She is presenting at multiple events for O, Miami's poetry festival this month.
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Darius Daughtry is the founder of Art Prevails Project, an organization that aims to strengthen South Florida's communities through literature and the performing arts. He joins WLRN's Carlos Frías ahead of this weekend's Our Voices: Festival of Words in Fort Lauderdale to talk about how art is healing.
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Award-winning author Sandra Cisneros joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about her latest book "Woman Without Shame." She reads from this new poetry collection about aging, desire, spirituality and shame.
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“I think too often we see the idea of a poet being a certain type of person. Like you have to be like William Shakespeare to be considered a poet. And honestly, that's not true at all [...] Everyone has their own identity and their own poem in them."
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Writer Alexandra T. Vazquez joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about her book "The Florida Room" — she uses it as a metaphor, as a place that’s in-between spaces. She discusses how culture and music mix in Florida, and specifically, Miami.
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Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist and journalist. His writing reflects on music, culture, sneakers, and prayer. He joins Carlos Frías to talk about the daily rituals he revels in and the music that formed him as the youngest of four siblings.
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Whether you want to celebrate your favorite ventanita or complain about the traffic on I-95, the poetry festival O, Miami and WLRN want you to write an ode to your zip code. A winning poem will be featured on a downtown billboard during the month of April.
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Miami writer and former WLRN reporter Nadege Green speaks to Sundial host Carlos Frías about community love and a new book of stories about gun violence in Miami.
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Miami writer and former WLRN reporter Nadege Green speaks to Sundial host Carlos Frías about community love and a new book of stories about gun violence in Miami.
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A literary journal penned by incarcerated people in Florida is being presented at the Miami Book Fair.