A Poetry Reading with Morgan Parker, Jasmine Respess, & Mahogany Browne

A Poetry Reading with Morgan Parker, Jasmine Respess, & Mahogany Browne

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Join us for an evening of poetry on the rooftop of the Doral Cultural Arts Center. Acclaimed poets Morgan Parker, Jasmine Respess, and Mahogany Browne will share their work under the open sky, bringing powerful words and perspectives to this intimate setting.

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Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.”

Mahogany L. Browne, a Kennedy Center's Next 50 fellow and MacDowell Arts Advocacy Awardee, is a writer, playwright, organizer, & educator. Browne received fellowships from All Arts, Arts for Justice, Air Serenbe, Baldwin for the Arts, Carolyn Moore Writing Residency, Cave Canem, Hawthornden, Poets House, Mellon Research, Rauschenberg, Wesleyan University, & UCross. Browne’s books include Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky (optioned for a play by Steppenwolf Theater), Black Girl Magic, and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby. Founder of the diverse lit initiative Woke Baby Book Fair, Browne currently tours Chrome Valley (highlighted in Publishers Weekly and The New York Times) and is the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize winner. Mahogany L. Browne holds an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded by Marymount Manhattan College, and is the inaugural poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center.

Jasmin Respess is a Florida native who writes about the intersections of their Black, Queer, Southern, and Caribbean identities. They studied journalism at New College of Florida, incorporating interviews with family members and research into much of their work. Inspired by the tradition of magical realism, they explore folktales and lore in their poetry and nonfiction. In 2020, they earned an MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York. They currently live in Hollywood, Florida, with their two dogs and best friend, Sara. [Name] is the Managing Editor of Islandia Journal and an Acquisitions Editor at North Atlantic Books.