Video: 2016
Remembering Gail Sheehy – Author & Journalist
GAIL SHEEHY (1937-2020) was an iconic author, journalist, and lecturer. Sheehy is the author of seventeen books, including Passages (1976), named by the Library of Congress as one of the ten most influential books of our times. She has written biographies and character studies of major twentieth-century leaders, including Hillary Clinton, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
read moreThe Historic Hampton House: Most Important Nexus in African American History
In the 1950s and ’60s, when Miami Beach was still segregated and African-Americans were not allowed to sleep there, the Hampton House Motel was an oasis for African-American leaders, activists, performers, and professional athletes, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Sammy Davis Jr., Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali.
read moreOrlando Jacinto Garcia: Contemporary Classical Composer, Conductor, Educator
Through 200 works composed for a wide range of performance genres ORLANDO JACINTO GARCÍA has established himself as an important figure in the new music world.
read moreMarcela Sardi & Michael Rubin: Immersive Design & Architecture
Architect MARCELA SARDI is a designer and producer of environmental multi-media systems and immersive, experiential settings. Architect MICHAEL RUBIN has been involved in the conceptualization and execution of destination developments and place branding for over 30 years.
read moreAnaMaria Correa: Building Bridges from NYC to MCB
AnaMaria Correa is Miami City Ballet’s senior director of community engagement.
read moreJane Leavy: Author of the 3 Best Baseball Biographies — Sandy, Mickey, & Babe
JANE LEAVY is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers ‘The Big Fella, Babe Ruth and the World He Created;’ ‘The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood;’ ‘Sandy Koufax, A Lefty’s Legacy;’ and the comic novel ‘Squeeze Play,’ which Entertainment Weekly called “the best novel ever written about baseball.”
read moreBob Mankoff: From The New Yorker to Esquire & Beyond
BOB MANKOFF (b. 1944) is a cartoonist, editor, and author. After making cartoons for “The New Yorker” magazine for 20 years, Mankoff became the magazine’s cartoon editor, succeeding Lee Lorenz. Mankoff held the position from 1997 to 2017.
read moreElisa Turner: Art Critic
ELISA TURNER is an award-winning art critic and art journalist. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, U.S. Section, and ArtTable, a national organization for women in visual arts professions. Her art writing has appeared in ARTnews, Miami Herald, Artburstmiami, Art+Auction, Arte Al Dia, Art Circuits, Delicious Line, Hamptons Art Hub, ArtSpeak, Miami Rail and other publications.
read moreA Discussion with Billy Collins, 2x U.S. Poet Laureate
Dubbed “the most popular poet in America” by Bruce Weber in the New York Times, BILLY COLLINS is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender or profound observation on the everyday, reading and writing, and poetry itself.
read morePoet P. Scott Cunningham
and the O, Miami Poetry Festival
SCOTT CUNNINGHAM is a poet, translator, essayist, and community organizer originally from Boca Raton, FL. He is the author of Ya Te Veo (University of Arkansas Press, 2018), selected by Billy Collins for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. His work has appeared in The Awl, Harvard Review, POETRY, A Public Space, The Rumpus, Tupelo Quarterly, Monocle, RHINO, The Guardian, PANK, Electric Literature, and others. His translations of Alejandra Pizarnik, César Vallejo, and Frank Báez have appeared in Omniglots, H.O.W. Journal, Waxwing, and The Miami Rail. And he is the founder and director of O, Miami, a non-profit organization that celebrates Miami, FL through the lens of poetry.
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