SNAPS

Photos from poetry events around Florida and beyond

Richard Blanco Interview With Mitch Kaplan, April 3, 2019, Coral Gables, FL

Richard Blanco, left, discusses his new book, How to Love a Country, with Books and Books proprietor and Miami Book fair founder, Mitch Kaplan at the Coral Gables Congressional Church near Miami.

Richard Blanco

Blanco and Kaplan President Barack Obama with Blanco at the president's first inauguration

SoFloPoJo @ AWP, Portland, Oregon, March 2019

Oregon Convention Center

The Book Fair Bridgewater Int'l Poetry Festival booth Nicole Yuracaba manning the BIPF booth

The Milagro Theater Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Tribute to Carl Phillips

Erin Belieu Carl Phillips

Poetry of Witness Nick Flynn

Cargo, an off-site reading

Terese Svoboda D. Nurkse Bruce Bond

The Making of an Anthology, Great Weather for Media

Artist Venus De Mars, GWFM Editors Jane Ormerod, Thomas Fucaloro, Mary McLaughlin & David Lawton

Powell's Book Store, Portland, Oregon

Hater's Poetry Roast, a night of literary insults, Hollywood, FL March 8, 2019

Featuring Cecily Shuler & Peter Lange

Hollywood poets roast billionaires: Elon Musk

Co-Host Brendan Walsh, Hollywood poets and Co-Host Mukethe Kawinzi

Poets roast billionaires at the Hater's Poetry Roast

Don and Telma Rosenthal

Palm Beach Poetry Festival's Outreach Program

Writing on the Wall workshop facilitated by Freesia McKee, Delray Beach, FL
March 2, 2019

Freesia McKee

Workshop participants and President, Chairman of the Board & Founder Miles Coon

Poet Margie Schnabel and another workshop partiticpant

Jade Kastel and Freesia McKee

Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches, Lake Worth, FL, Feb. 10, 2019

Angela Narciso Torres & Elizabeth Jacobson

at The Book Cellar

Charles Scheitler Ray Neubert Michael Mackin O'Mara

Co-Host Susannah Simpson and Angela Narciso Torres

Book Cellar audience Co-Hosts Susannah Simpson & Judy Ireland Miles Coon, center, Director, Palm Beach Poetry Festival

O, Miami & Studios of Key West host Jose Marti performance, Key West, Feb. 2, 2019

Photos by Mark Hedden markhedden.com

Actor Ivan Lopez reprised his role as Cuban poet-revolutionary Jose Marti on the 166th anniversary of the icon's birthday in Key West. The ride started at 5 Brothers, then went through the cemetery where the crowd laid white roses at the martyr's monument. From there the celebration continued at La Te Da, a place Marti spoke when alive. Lopez recited poems in Spanish and English from a balcony to a crowd of about 200. The parade made its way down at Duval Street to the San Carlos Institute, where Lopez gave a speech originally given by Marti. Baconao the horse, was played superbly by Alegria.

A Reading by Cornelius Eady & Robert Gibbons, Park Plaza Restaurant, Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 26, 2019

Cornelius Eady

Robert Gibbons Patricia Carragon Jerry Johnson & Cornelius Eady

Robert Gibbons Cornelius Eady and audience Poets in the crowd

Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Delray Beach, FL Jan 21-26

Festival faculty for 2019: Ellen Bass, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Stuart Dischell, Aracelis Girmay, Campbell McGrath, Gregory Pardlo, Matthew Olzmann, Chase Twichell, Eleanor Wilner, Lorna Blake, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Nickole Brown and Stephen Gibson. Special Guest: Sharon Olds, and, and Poet-At-Large, Tyehimba Jess.

Pulitzer Prizer Winner Tyehimba Jess

Aracelis Girmay Eleanor Wilner Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Matthew Olzmann Stuart Dischell

Jennifer Litt & Susan R. Williamson, Palm Beach Poetry Festival directors

Cigar City Poetry Journal Launch Party, Ybor City, FL, Jan. 18, 2019

CCPJ Editor Sarah Escue, poets Emily Duffy, Jen Karetnick, George Franklin, Ximena Gómez, Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, CCPJ Publisher Jonathan Simkins, CCPJ Editor Lizette Espinosa, and poet Michell Pérez Acosta.

Below: CCPJ Editor Lizette Espinosa, poet John Davis Jr., Legna Rodríguez Iglesias

Cigar City Poetry Journal Editor Lizette Espinosa

Artsmith Salon Series, Eastbound, WA, San Juan Islands, Jan. 8, 2019
photos by Jill McCabe Johnson

Darvill's Bookstore, Orcas Island, San Juan Islands, Washington

Emcee: Jill McCabe Johnson

Artist Residency Fellows Deborah Babcock, Jennifer Bullis, Gail Folkins, Michelle Goodman, and Jeremy Leon Hance

Book Launch: Armine Iknadossian, Jan. 5, 2019, Art Share, Los Angeles

ABOVE LEFT: Those attending the book launch party of Armine Iknadossian's new book All That Wasted Fruit are thrilled by a series of awe-inspiring presentations. The Melrose Poetry Bureau brought its own performers in full Goddess attire for the event.

ABOVE RIGHT: Fire-eating actress Kimiko Rojas is Pele, the Polynesian goddess of fire and volcanoes.

Pasadena Public Library Reading, Pasadena, CA, Dec. 15, 2018

Photos by Alexis Rhone Fancher

Michelle Bitting

Corinne Marie Rodriguez-Ramirez Carl Stilwell and Don Kingfisher Campbell

Ellaraine Lockie GT Foster and Nicelle Davis

Montauk Club, Brooklyn, NY., Dec. 16, 2018

Cathy Gigante-Brown Devon Moore Patricia Carragon Heather Corbally-Bryant Terence Degnan
Cathy Gigante-Brown and Devon Moore

Brownstone Poets 2018 Anthology Reading NY Dec. 15, 2018

Bernard and Diane Block Gordon Gilbert Noel Cohen Erica Mapp, Linda Lerner, Ptr Kozlowski, Zev Torres, Susan Weiman, Karen Neuberg, Rosalie Calabrese, Bill Considine, Dorothy Friedman, Ron Kolm read at the third Brownstone Poets 2018 Anthology Book Event

The KGB Bar Red Room in NYC, Dec. 5, 2018

Poets read from The Crossing (Cider Press) by Joseph Fasano

Above: Joseph Fasano reading from his new collection, "The Crossing" at the KGB Bar Red Room in Manhattan
Below: Alex Dimitrov, Dorethea Lasky and Timothy Donnelly

Robot Brewery Presents Swamp Ape Review's Poetry & Fiction Reading, Dec. 2, 2018

Robot Brewery in Boca Raton,FL, played host to the launch of Swamp Ape Review's inaugural print issue. Swamp Ape Review is the literary magazine published by the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

BELOW:

Dr. Caren Neil is co-host of WLRN's (NPR) The Public Story Teller on Sundays at 4 pm

Claire Macena is a South Florida poet

Craig Ryan is a South Florida poet

Daniel Graves is an associate editor of Swamp Ape Review

Claire Macena Dr. Caren Neil

Daniel Graves Craig Ryan

Miami Book Fair Nov. 17 &18, 2018

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Chase Twitchell Barbara Hamby

Stacey Lynn Brown Libby Burton Jodie Hollander Erika Meitner

Maureen Seaton Aimee Nezhukumatathil Barbara Hamby John Freeman

4 Women Poets Reading & Open Mic- Performance Poets of the Palm beaches, Nov 18, 2018

Photos by Laura Petrella

Cara Nusinov Holly Iglesias Julie Marie Wade Mary Galvin

Poetry & Art , featuring Sarah Carey, Gainesville, FL, Oct. 27, 2018

Sarah Carey
reads from her chapbook collection The Heart Contracts (Finishing Line Press)

Other Words Conference, University of Tampa, Oct. 11-13, 2018

Florida Poet Laureate Peter Meinke, Indian River County, FL Poet Laureate Sean Sexton, and poet Richard Mathews during the Other Words Conference in Tampa. Photo by Jeanne Meinke

Yolanda Franklin & Tina Mozelle Brazil

Supporting Women Writers in Miami-SWWIM

Yaddyra Peralta & Nicole Callihan at SWWIM's reading at the Betsy Hotel, South Beach, Oct. 3, 2018 photos by Majorie Kinay

Left: Yaddyra Peralta

Right: SWWIM (Supporting Women Writers In Miami) Co-Director Catherine Esposito Prescott, poet Nikki Moustaki, Nicole Callihan, Peralta and SWWIM Co-Director Jen Karetnick

Below: Callihan and Moustaki at the Betsy Hotel on South Beach, Miami.