Derricotte/Eady Prize Chapbook Release Reading by Mia Word with Brandon D. Johnson and Trey Rhone

Derricotte/Eady Prize Chapbook Release Reading by Mia Word with Brandon D. Johnson and Trey Rhone
presented by Cave Canem

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Our annual book prize reading celebrates the winner of a contest run by our partner, Cave Canem, the nation’s foremost poetry organization supporting Black poets. Join us at The Betsy to celebrate Cave Canem 2024 prize winner Mia Word!

Join us for a paella during a reception at 6:30pm, before the reading begins at 8:00pm.

This event will have ASL interpretation.

About Cave Canem

The Derricotte/Eady Prize is presented annually by Cave Canem and co-sponsored by O, Miami Poetry Festival, Jai-Alai Books, and The Writer’s Room at The Betsy Hotel. This year’s judge was Brandon D. Johnson. For more information, visit cavecanempoets.org

About The Betsy-South Beach
Situated at the edge of the Atlantic, The Betsy–South Beach is the host hotel for wide-ranging programs that embrace the richness of global arts and culture.

Since opening in 2012, The Betsy Writer’s Room has hosted more than 1,000 authors, artists, and thought leaders, including notable poets W.S. Merwin, Nikky Finney, and Robert Haas. The Betsy’s poetry programs are inspired by the work of mid-century poet Hyam Plutzik, three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and father of Betsy Hotel owner Jonathan Plutzik. For more information, visit www.thebetsywritersroom.com and www.thebetsyhotel.com
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Mia Word is a poet hailing from the Mississippi Delta. Her poetry is often influenced by her Southern upbringing and heritage, rooted in Blues, ancestry and storytelling. She is a recent graduate of Harvard University, where she earned a Bachelors of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Sociology. At Harvard, she received the Edward Eager Memorial Prize for Creative Writing and the David McCord Prize for Depth of Talent in the Literary Arts. She has been a featured poet at the Harvard Art Museum and her work is forthcoming and has appeared in the Yale University Press, Indigo Magazine and The Harvard Gazette.

Brandon D. Johnson is the author of Love’s Skin, Man Burns Ant, The Strangers Between, and co-author of The Black Rooster Social Inn: This Is the Place. He has been published in several print and online journals and anthologies, including Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade and The Listening Ear: Cave Canem Poets Look South. He is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow (97-99) and was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Brandon is also a photographer and short fiction writer. Born in Gary, Indiana, he received his BA from Wabash College (1978) and his JD from Antioch School of Law (1981). Brandon lives with his wife and children in Washington, DC.

Trey Rhone is a queer black writer from Augusta, Georgia, but currently resides in Miami, Florida. He has received an MFA from Florida International University. His work has appeared in Broadsided Press, BULL, Daily Drunk Magazine, MAYDAY, and Olney Magazine. If he isn't ranting about the latest music release, ask him to tell you a fun fact about his favorite animal, the possum.