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Poet Campbell McGrath

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CAMPBELL MCGRATH grew up in Washington, D.C. where he attended Sidwell Friends School. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1984 and his MFA from Columbia University’s creative writing program in 1988. He currently lives in Miami Beach, Florida, and teaches creative writing at Florida International University.

McGrath has been recognized by some of the most prestigious American poetry awards, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (for “Spring Comes to Chicago”, his third book of poems), a Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, a Ploughshares Cohen Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award.” In 2011 he was named a Fellow of United States Artists. In 2017 McGrath was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

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Poet Marie Howe: Always Worth Waiting For

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MARIE HOWE is the author of four volumes of poetry: “Magdalene: Poems” (W.W. Norton, 2017); “The Kingdom of Ordinary Time” (W.W. Norton, 2009); “What the Living Do” (1997); and “The Good Thief” (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays, “In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic” (1994). Her poems have appeared in “The New Yorker,” “The Atlantic”, “Poetry,” “Agni,” “Ploughshares,” “Harvard Review,” and “The Partisan Review,” among others. In August, 2012 she was named the State Poet for New York.

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The Remarkable Jonathan Plutzik

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JONATHAN PLUTZIK, with high-quality, hands-on support from his wife Lesley, his son Zach, and his sister Deborah has created a cultural Mecca in the heart of South Beach – offering chamber music, opera, jazz, poetry in many forms, writers’ breakfast salons, a writer-in-residency program, art exhibitions, a cappella festivals, and much more – all free of charge to the public.

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Into the Deep with Author Patricia Posner

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PATRICIA POSNER, author of “The Pharmacist of Auschwitz,” was born in London and spent half of her life in the U.K. and half in the U.S.A. Posner has always been greatly interested in the history surrounding World War II and the Holocaust. She has  long been been fascinated by the mostly untold story of Victor Capesius, an ethnic German from Romania who ended up as the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp.

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Poet Marie Howe: Always Worth Waiting For

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MARIE HOWE is the author of four volumes of poetry: “Magdalene: Poems” (W.W. Norton, 2017); “The Kingdom of Ordinary Time” (W.W. Norton, 2009); “What the Living Do” (1997); and “The Good Thief” (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays, “In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic” (1994). Her poems have appeared in “The New Yorker,” “The Atlantic”, “Poetry,” “Agni,” “Ploughshares,” “Harvard Review,” and “The Partisan Review,” among others. In August, 2012 she was named the State Poet for New York.

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