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Mark Your Calendar: December 12, 2009
Book Launch: Reception and Lecture: Eroticism, Spirituality and Resistance in Black Women's Writings by Donna Aza Weir-Soley Come out and bring your friends and family for good Caribbean food and an exciting discussion on the nexus between black f...
Book Review: Visionware by Caridad Moro-McCormick
One of the pleasures of attending the Miami Book Fair International 2009 was discovering new books and listening to the authors read—especially when they did it well—from their work. Listening to Caridad Moro-McCormick’s reading from her ch...
Interview @ WPBT: Geoffrey Philp
Geoffrey Philp, author and professor at Miami Dade College, talks about his latest book Who's Your Daddy? Philp will be reading at the 2009 Miami Book Fair International on November 15, 2009. Please follow this link for the interview: ...
Ricardo Pau-Llosa @ Americano
"Ricardo Pau-Llosa: The Rebel without an Inferiority Complex" by Armando F. Mastrapa. If a writer, or any other artist, is not focused on what is before him—which is how I see what you refer to as hedonism—and doesn’t reflect this in ...
Toward a Floribbean Literature
One of the insights I gained from the Florida Humanities Council’s conference, Florida and the Caribbean: Historic Ties and Cultural Connections, was the realization that there was a growing body of writing created by Caribbean authors li...
My Ideal Reader: Barbra Nightingale
My ideal reader is someone who loves the taste of words. Who reads aloud to him or herself (or to others, of course!) just to be able to roll the words around in the mouth, tasting each one of them, enjoying the sweet, the tart, yes, even the bitt...
Who's Your Daddy? @ Books & Books
Reading in front of family and friends, especially when there are new readers in the audience, is never easy. On the one hand, I wanted to read something that showed I had grown artistically and the faith that my family has had in me—not to spea...
What does it mean to be Caribbean American?: Adrian Castro
Do you consider yourself to be a Caribbean-American?Yes. My folks are Cuban and Dominican, so I can’t really say I’m Cuban or Dominican. Add to the fact I was born in the Republic of Miami, a fine Caribbean city.How does this affect your work...
MDC’s Florida Center for the Literary Arts Offers Summer Creative Writing Courses
Michael Hettich is one of Miami's finest poets and he is also committed to sustaining our relationship with the environment. clipped from www.mdc.eduMichael Hettich will lead a six-week workshop on environmental writing as part of FCLA's Summer 2009...
In My Own Words: Donna Aza Weir-Soley (2009)
Erotic Caribbean was conceived several years ago on a car-ride to Xunantunich (Lady of the Stone), the ancient Mayan ruin in Belize, close to the border of Guatemala. Opal and I were at a CSA conference in Belize and the discussion turned to the erot...
"The Ex-Files" by Barbra Nightingale
There is often the urge when faced with an unbearable tragedy to wallow in self-pity. And if one turns to verse to render the circumstances into an aesthetic experience, the most important aspect of poetry—transport—is often missing.In the The Ex...
Cuban American Writer: Ivonne Lamazares
Ivonne read from her newest short story "Hostal Jamil" published in The Southern Review for 2009. clipped from reflectionsonlinemagazine.blogspot.comOn March 12th, in honor of Women's History Month, Miami Dade College hosted novelist Dr. Ivonne Lama...
New Release: "Square Watermelons" by Marisella Veiga
Nationally syndicated columnist Marisella Veiga has released a spoken word CD, “Square Watermelons: Ten Essays on Living with Two Cultures.”The essays, written and read in English, explore what life is like as a U.S. Hispanic, a person who ba...
