April 22 & 23, 2016
MANA Wynwood
Poetry Press Week, founded in Portland, Oregon in 2013, is a showcase of new works of poetry by established and emerging poets before an audience of press, publishers, and the public.
The event is modeled after fashion week, the fashion industry’s biannual showcase, wherein designers send new work down a runway via models. Instead of reading the work themselves, featured poets choose a novel method of presentation best suited to their work, and influential editors, mixed in with the public, get the first crack at choosing that work for publication.
Poetry Press Week Miami
April 22-23, 2016
Judges: Elizabeth Scanlon, Editor of American Poetry Review; Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Poetry Editor of Los Angeles Review of Books; Major Jackson, Poetry Editor of Harvard Review; and Saeed Jones, Editor of Buzzfeed Literary.
Featured Poets Program 1 (Friday, April 22): Cherry Pickman, Annik Adey-Babinski, Carlos Pintado, Chasity Hale, and Aja Monet.
Feature Poets, Program 2 (Saturday, April 23): Laurel Nakanishi, Denise Duhamel, Gregg Shapiro, M.J. Fievre, and Yaddyra Peralta.
Music by DJ Hottpants
The event is free, but an RSVP is REQUIRED.
Doors/Bar open: 6:30pm