Bocas in Miami!

The body of water Miami faces is the Atlantic Ocean, but — 180 miles from Nassau, 220 miles from Havana — there’s no doubt it’s also a Caribbean city. And for a few days in mid-October, Miami will also be a major hub for Caribbean literary scholarship, as the University of Miami hosts the 31st annual West Indian Literature Conference, with the theme “Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean.”

And the NGC Bocas Lit Fest will be part of the mix! We’ll be hosting a reading by five remarkable writers of different generations, as part of the closing night events of the WILC — and everyone is invited. The details:

Nations and Imaginations: An Evening with the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in Miami

Featuring 2012 OCM Bocas Prize winner Earl Lovelace, 2013 OCM Bocas Prize chair Olive Senior, Edwidge Danticat, Edward Baugh, and Lisa Allen-Agostini.

Saturday 13 October, 8 pm

Books and Books, 

265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables

The event is free and open to the public. Bocas fans in Miami, hope to see you there!

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Book Launch: Near Open Water by Keith Jardim

 

January 27, 2012 

8:00 pm 

Books & Books

265 Aragon Avenue,

Coral Gables,

Florida 33134-5008 

Disturbing in its honesty, this anthology by Keith Jardim, Near Open Water: Stories (Peepal Tree Press Ltd, $18.95) focuses a sharp yet intimate eye upon the people of the Caribbean. The characters face problems of freedom, history, race, class, violence, entrapment, and morality. Theirs is a region in constant flux, trying to break away from its dehumanizing past while uncertain of how to manage the present and plan for the future. Unflinching in its portrayal of the realities of Caribbean life, these dark short stories also find solace in the natural beauty of the region.

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Friday Links: Lectures, Conferences, and Workshops

Cropper Foundation

13th International Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars

The 31st West Indian Literature Conference

Publishing in Caribbean Studies:
A Workshop with Cathie Brettschneider
Humanities Editor at the University of Virginia Press

Book Launch

Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial
Dr. Raphael Dalleo


Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean
Edited by Dr. Faith Smith

Saturday January 28, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Books & Books, 
265 Aragon Ave. Coral Gables

Reception prior to launch at 6:00 p.m.

Polyglot Writers: Writing Across Languages

 

Polyglot Writers: Writing Across Languages

The Creative Writing Program proudly welcomes poet and playwright Nathalie Handal and poet Ishion Hutchinson to its 2011-2012 reading series, Polyglot Writers: Writing Across Languages on Nov. 29 and 30, 2011.

The series celebrates our global society, where languages float across borders, race and class and have created a nation of polyglot people. At the University of Miami, our student body represents 146 nations and it is common to walk across the campus and hear conversations in more than two or three languages. Not unusual when you consider that the U.S. Census Bureau has determined that the number of people speaking a language other than English at home has doubled in the last three decades.

Polyglot Writers explores the fluidity of words as they define and redesign the narratives of writers who come from multiple languages, cultures and traditions. This year, we have also partnered with Books & Books to host writers’ salons, where we will engage in fine desserts, after dinner drinks, and conversations that focus on the play of language in all its forms.

Playwright and poet Nathalie Handal is the author most recently of Love and Strange Horses (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010). Of her writing, Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Kumunyakaa has written: “This cosmopolitan voice belongs to the human family, and it luxuriates in crossing necessary borders.” Handal is also the editor of the groundbreaking anthology, The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology. 

Poet Ishion Hutchinson’s work has appeared in the LA Review, Callaloo, Caribbean Review of Books, Poetry and International, and first book of poetry, Far District, was the winner of the Academy of Poets’s Larry Levis Prize.

Dr. Christina Civantos, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Spanish, and Dr. Patricia Saunders, author of Alien/Nation and Repatri(n)ation: Caribbean Literature and the Task of Translating Identity, will lead the Writers’ Salon in a lively discussion.

Fiction Master’s Class
Tuesday, November 29
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
427 Ashe Building, 1252 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables

Reading
Tuesday, November 29
7 - 8 p.m.
Location: CAS Gallery, 1210 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146

Poetry Master’s Class
Wednesday, November 30
3:15 - 5:15 p.m.
427 Ashe Building, 1252 Memorial Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146

Writers’ Salon
Wednesday, November 30
8:30 p.m.
Books & Books 265 Aragon Avenue Coral Gables, FL 33134


“Polyglot Writers” Reading Series is sponsored by the University of Miami’s Creative Writing Program, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences, American Studies Program, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures’ Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, Multicultural Student Affairs, and our partners at Books & Books.

Contact information: M. Evelina Galang, Director of Creative Writing, 305 284 5573,mgalang@miami.edu; Daisy Hernández, Graduate Assistant,daisyhernandez@gmail.com

Tom Brokaw @ Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus

 Tom Brokaw

The Center for Literature and Theater at Miami Dade College (MDC), formerly known as the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, in collaboration with Books & Books, will present Tom Brokaw reading from The Time of Our Lives (Random House) at 7:30 p.m. Friday, November 11, at the college’s Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami.

Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America’s greatness.            

Miami Dade College and Books & Books present Tom Brokaw

• WHEN: Friday, Nov. 11, 7:30 PM - Thursday, Nov. 10, 9:30 PM
• WHERE: MDC Wolfson Campus 300 N.E. Second Avenue Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd floor)
• COST: FREE TICKETS are available for this event at Books & Books Coral Gables, Miami Beach and Bal Harbour Shops. Limit 2 tickets per person, while supplies last.

For more information, please call 305-237-3940, or visit The Center at MDC website at www.flcenterlitarts.com.

New Book: The Animals Beyond Us by Michael Hettich

Lynne Barrett Reads From Magpies @ Books and Books

Last night was a proud moment for South Florida. Not only did Lynne Barrett treat us to a superb reading, but we also witnessed the full flowering of our literary community. Books and Books was packed with readers, fitting nearly every demographic profile in South Florida --and that says a lot!--who came out to listen to one of our community's finest authors. And it could only have happened in Books and Books.

Books and Books has kept ahead of the publishing curve with Mitch Kaplan's innovative practices and by selling all kinds of books: high-brow, low-brow, middle-brow, no-brow. They've had to. A bookseller cannot be a literary snob. Repeat the bookseller's mantra: "I sell, I sell, I sell."

However, what makes Mitchell Kaplan, a recipient of the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, different is that he has nurtured a literary community in South Florida by his involvement in the Miami Book Fair International, Florida Center for the Literary Arts, and Books and Books. For more than twenty-five years, Mitch has opened the doors of Books and Books to many authors, and the size of the audience was indicative of the appreciation for Mitch's work and Lynne Barrett's talent.

After the introduction by John Dufresne, another of our literary pioneers, Lynne took the podium and read "Gossip and Toad" a story from Magpies (Carnegie-Mellon). It was a gutsy choice. But Lynne lived up to John Dufresne's  description of her as the "Queen of Plot" by weaving together the lives of three characters from different backgrounds while providing acerbic social commentary and demonstrated her mastery of magical realism to create a remarkable narrative about a writer's acceptance of her craft.

If "Gossip and Toad" is anything like the rest of the stories in Magpies, then this collection is certain to join the ranks of Lynne's other celebrated works.

In the meantime, South Florida, read Magpies and take a bow.

About Lynne Barrett

Lynne Barrett's short story collection, The Secret Names of Women, was a Book Sense pick of the American Booksellers' Association. It includes "Elvis Lives," winner of the Edgar Allan Poe award of the Mystery Writers of America, and "Beauty," awarded the best short story prize at the Moondance International Film Festival. A new story appears in A Dixie Christmas, published by Algonquin. She is also the author of The Land of Go and co-editor of the anthology Birth: A Literary Companion. Lynne teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Florida International University and lives in Miami with her husband and son.


Photo source: Sliver of Stone

Thank You, JK Rowling

Last night as my family and I got ready to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, I remembered anticipation of my children, especially the eldest, before we headed out to midnight releases of the books or film premieres. Those nights were always special and quite surprisingly, it was always my children who were pushing me out the door instead of me waiting by the car for them to go to be on time for things like…school? For it wasn't always easy to match their excitement after a day of writing in the morning, taking them to school, teaching three or four classes, grading papers, preparing for the next day, and attending a film where I knew I would be quizzed: "How did you like the scene…?"

And I'll never forget the look on my daughter's face (she's back from Seattle and living with us again) after the midnight release at Books & Books of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and she stayed up all night to read the book. When I came downstairs, huge gobs of tears stained the cover of the book and she was depressed for about a week. Coincidentally, she was cleaning out her room in preparation for her next big adventure and found this booklet that she'd saved since 2001.

I look at the photograph of the Harry now and again I realize how much he has become a part of my children's lives and imagination. Harry has grown up with my children. As Harry was going through his quest for identity, adolescent love, and facing challenges to his integrity, my children were going through similar issues.

So, thank you, JK Rowling, for providing my children with an outlet for wonder that spurred their imagination and giving them a model to trust their inner and outer guides of wisdom.

Thank you for a great story that gave me a way to talk with my children about life, love, and yes, death. I'll never forget Amos Diggory's howl in The Goblet of Fire as he cradles his son's body: "That's my son! That's my boy! My Boy!" 

Thank you for creating a character who cherished his relationships with his friends and mentors, and whose love saved him from the perils of ego-driven power. For even as Harry struggled bravely with the forces of evil incarnated in "The One Whose Name Cannot Be Spoken," I hoped that Harry would (while secretly praying for my own children) find the strength to become the shaman that I always knew he could be. For in the end, that's what Harry taught me: True magic springs from hope.

2011 FIU/Books & Books International Writers Conference--Grand Cayman

2011 FIU/Books & Books International Writers Conference--Grand Cayman

Co-sponsored by FIU's MFA Program in Creative Writing and Books & Books, along with Camana Bay, Sunshine Suites Resort, Cayman Airways & the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism.
Co-Directors:  Mitchell Kaplan, Books & Books; Les Standiford, Director of FIU's MFA in Creative Writing.

Dates:  October 20-22, 2011

Conference Faculty:

COLIN CHANNER (Satisfy My Soul) Fiction
MARK KURLANSKY(Salt, A World Without Fish)Non-Fiction
ELLEN SUSSMAN (French Lessons)Novel
THOMAS LUX (God Particles)Poetry
KIM WITHERSPOON Founding Partner, Inkwell Management LiteraryAgency
GERALD COSTANZO Founder, Carnegie Mellon University Press
DEBRA DEAN (The Madonnas of Leningrad) Novel
CAMPBELL McGRATH (Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis & Clark Expedition) Poetry
LES STANDIFORD (Bringing Adam Home)Narrative Non-Fiction
JOHN DUFRESNE (Requiem, Mass.) Fiction
 LYNNE BARRETT (Magpies) Fiction &  Revision
ROBERT ROTSTEIN, Esq. (Entertainment attorney)

Tuition:  Special early-bird rate--$325, prior to August 1, 2011
Manuscript (Mss.) Conferences:  $50.00 [Limited availability]

Conference Hotel:  Sunshine Suites Resort, Grand Cayman.  $105 studio; $115 deluxe studio; $130 deluxe 1BR suite.  Rates include complimentary wireless internet and daily breakfast. Call 877.786.1110, toll free, or visit their web site at http://www.sunshinesuites.com/.  Use code  FIUWW1.

Nine daily classes in all genres; afternoon editing and publishing symposia; evening readings.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL 305-919-5857 or e-mail:  campbet@fiu.edu.
Faxed reservations cannot be accepted at this time.

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Grand Cayman, Here We Come!

The blog will be on hiatus so that I can devote time to the participants at the FIU/Books&Books International Writers Conference. If you're in the neighborhood, drop by Thursday night when I'll be reading with Dan Wakefield & Debra Dean.

Tentative schedule: 2010 FIU/Books& Books International Writers Conference--Grand Cayman

Co-sponsored by FIU's MFA Program in Creative Writing and Books& Books.

Co-Directors:  Mitchell Kaplan, Books & Books;  Les Standiford, Director of FIU's MFA in Creative Writing

Dates:  October 21-23, 2010

Conference Faculty

KAYLEE JONES (Lies My Mother Never Told Me) Non-Fiction/Memoir

ANN HOOD (The Red Thread) Novel

GEOFFREY PHILP (Dub Wise) Poetry

MARLY RUSOFF (The Marly Rusoff Agency, NYC) Literary Agent

DANIEL HALPERN (ECCO Press, NYC) Editor & Publisher

DAN WAKEFIELD (New York in the 50's) Mind, Spirit, Non-fiction

DEBRA DEAN (The Madonnas of Leningrad) Novel

CAMPBELL McGRATH (Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis & Clark Expedition) Poetry

LES STANDIFORD (Last Train to Paradise) Narrative Non-Fiction

JOHN DUFRESNE (Requiem, Mass.) Fiction

DENISE DUHAMEL (Ka-Ching!) Poetry

LYNNE BARRETT (The Secret Names of Women) Fiction & Revision

Tuition:  Special early-bird rate--$300, prior to July 15.  

Mss. Conferences:  Limited, $50

Conference Hotel:  Sunshine Suites, Grand Cayman.  $100 studio; $110 deluxe studio; $125 deluxe 1BR suite.  Call 877.786.1110, toll free.  E-mail sunshinesuites.com.  Code:  FIUWW

Nine daily classes in all genres; afternoon editing and publishing symposia; evening readings.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL 305.919.5857 or e-mail:  campbet@fiu.edu.

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Save the Date: Geoffrey Philp Reads DUB WISE @ Books & Books

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

8:00 pm

Books & Books

265 Aragon Avenue

Coral Gables, Fl 33134

305-442-4408

Geoffrey Philp is a poet and fiction writer who teaches English at Miami Dade College, where he also chairs the North Campus' College Preparatory Department. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he attended Mona Primary and Jamaica College, where he studied literature under the tutelage of Dennis Scott. When he left Jamaica in 1979, he went to Miami Dade College and after graduating, studied Caribbean, African and African-American literature with Dr. O.R. Dathorne and creative writing with Lester Goran and Isaac Bashevis Singer at the University of Miami, where he earned both a baccalaureate degree and Master of Arts in English. In 1991, he returned to the U. of Miami as a James Michener Fellow and studied poetry under Kamau Brathwaite and fiction with George Lamming.

Prof. Philp has published five collections of poetry; a children's book; two books of short stories, Who’s Your Daddy? and Uncle Obadiah and the Alien, and a book of poems and short stories titled Twelve Poems and a Story for Christmas. His master's thesis, Benjamin, My Son, was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2003. A critically acclaimed author, Philp's work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including  Small Axe, Gulf Stream, Canopic Jar, Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, the Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, the Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, tongues of the ocean and St. Somewhere Journal.

This evening, Geoffrey Philp will read excerpts from his newest collection of poems, Dub Wise. Scheduled to be released by Peepal Tree Press in late September, it has already garnered praise from other poets:

“Without losing the joy of play or the play of the rhythms, Dub Wise celebrates the burdens and delights of love, friendships and the responsibility of being at home in the world.”--Olive Senior

“Geoffrey Philp...sensitively explores his complex heritage, alert to the environment he has entered and to his Jamaican roots.” --Mervyn Morris

“Above all, there is the continuing infolding of a ‘Jamaica Tradition’ as being established in the voices of Morris &  Dawes, plus also the acknowledgment of McNeill, Baugh, Mikey Smith & Garvey, and the NL of Jean Binta Breeze.” --Kamau Brathwaite.

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"Art and the Diasporic Imagination" by Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Ricardo Pau-Llosa - Art and the Diasporic Imagination

September 30, 2010

8:00pm

Books & Books 

265 Aragon Ave. Coral Gables, FL 33134 

(305) 442-4408

http://www.booksandbooks.com/ricardo_pau-llosa

For over three and a half decades, Ricardo Pau-Llosa has been a prominent figure in the literary and visual arts of South Florida.  An internationally recognized authority on Latin American Modernist art, Pau-Llosa has attained equal prominence as a poet and essayist.  And he has also been collecting art.  The University of Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art is featuring a major exhibition this fall: Parallel Currents: Highlights of the Ricardo Pau-Llosa Collection of Latin American Art (Aug. 29-Nov. 14).

Pau-Llosa will be signing copies of the superbly designed and printed, full-color book accompanying the exhibition which includes a penetrating essay, “Art and the Diasporic Imagination” (published with facing-page translation into Spanish), in which Pau-Llosa discusses the emergence of the Latin American art scene in Miami, the role art played in his exile family’s struggles to establish themselves in America,  and the development of his original critical model for the interpretation of the region’s art.  Above all, the catalogue and exhibition are a tribute to how art, ideas, and poetry have coalesced in the life, home, and work of a celebrated poet.  Also being presented this evening is the just released book, The Miami of the Poet (The Maker Press), with a selection of Pau-Llosa’s South Florida-inspired works alongside photographs by James Gersing, first in a series that will pair poets and photographers whose works capture the spirit of different cities.

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Chenjerai Hove @ Books & Books Tonight

In anticipation of Banned Books Week, Miami City of Refuge writer-in-residence, Chenjerai Hove will read entries from his book of poetry, Blind Moon (Michigan State, $22.95), and speak of his plight as a censored writer in Zimbabwe. Presented in collaboration with Florida Center for the Literary Arts. 

September 15, 2010

8:00pm

Books & Books

265 Aragon Ave.

Coral Gables, FL 33134

Mr. Chenjerai Hove (pronounced chen-jeh-rye  hoe-veh) is a Zimbabwean author, poet, essayist, playwright, and human rights activist.  He has a Bachelor’s degree in Education and holds an equivalent to a Master of Arts with specializations in African Literature, Socio-Linguistics and Literary Theory. For over thirty years, Hove wrote from his native country unafraid of the risks involved in writing and teaching about the ugliness of his government. As time went on, his work became an increasingly political target of attack and so, after endless bribes and countless death threats, Hove finally fled to exile in 2001

Hove is the founder of the Zimbabwe Writers Union and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (Zimrights).  He has lectured on the craft of writing as well as social justice at major universities across the globe. He has received the highest prize in literature given on the African Continent (the NOMA award) for his novel Bones in 1988, and his essays on social justice entitled Palaver Finish earned him the German-Africa prize in 2001.

CHENJERAI HOVE

Notable Books with Descriptions-

Bones
Publisher: Baobab Books (January 1, 1988)  
ISBN-10: 0908311036  

This proclaimed novel, and Zimbabwean classic, won both the Zimbabwe Book Publishers' Association first prize for literature, and the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1989. The jury citation described the novel as 'a powerful, moving, and ambitious novel, written with exceptional linguistic control, plumbing the depths of human suffering but having the wisdom to hope'. The story is the sensitive evocation of Marita, a farm- worker, whose only son joined the freedom fighters in Zimbabwe's war of liberation. The poetic language is rich in Shona idiom.

Blind Moon
Publisher: Weaver Press; illustrated edition (December 29, 2003)  
ISBN-10: 1779220197  

A new collection of evocative and defiant poetry, the poems reflect on the plight of the individual citizen and the state of Zimbabwe, the poet's birthplace and spiritual home. They convey empathy for those who suffer anonymous deaths at the expense of tyrannical power, and yearning for a more peaceful world and spirit of common destiny; their intention being in his words' to persuade the heart and the soul and human body to be together and to gently cry out to the world'.

Palaver Finish
Publisher: Weaver Press Ltd (January 1, 2004)  
ISBN-10: 1779220014  

This volume brings together a series of articles, which have previously appeared in his weekly column in The Zimbabwe Standard. Hove, publishing in Zimbabwe, believes the voices of the nation's politically engaged writers - in tune with the mood of the people and the times - are crucial in the current climate of political violence and censorship. To outside media and observers trying to ascertain the truths of the political situation, his writings offer insights from a black Zimbabwean writer and critic. Hove writes for and about Zimbabwe from a perspective that acknowledges recent history, and debates around culture, tradition, and democracy. His case is that Zimbabwe is a police state, which has inherited pre-independence totalitarianism; members of the Government are in politics for reasons of personal gain - they are unsophisticated, poorly educated and have no notion of public office. He believes that the army and police - whom he compares with those of apartheid South Africa, are the politicians' personal weapons, committing acts of crime and terrorism in the President's name and in their own.

Ancestors
Publisher: Picador (November 22, 1996)
ISBN-10: 0330344900

This novel traces African national history and identity from the turn of the 19th century to the eve of Zimbabwe's independence.

Writers, Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd (July 31, 2009)  
ISBN-10: 190670452X  

NOTE: This volume of essays was co-written with his colleague Okey Ndibe who teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. This work could be presented in a public discussion as a dialogue between both authors articulating the political experience of writers from Africa.

The book is divided into two broad categories: in one, several writers speak directly, and with rich anecdotal details about the impact wars and conflicts have had in the formation of their experience and work; in the second, a number of scholars articulate how particular writers have assimilated the horrors of wars and conflicts in their literary creations. The result is an invaluable harvest of reflections and perspectives that open the window into an essential, but until now sadly unexplored, facet of the cultural and political experience of African writers. The broad scope of this collection-covering Darfur, the Congolese crisis, Biafra, Zimbabwe, South Africa, among others-is complemented by a certain buoyancy of spirit that runs through most of the essays and anecdotes.  

Shebeen Tales
Publisher: Serif Publishing (October 1997)
ISBN-10: 189795932X 

In Shebeen Tales, Chenjerai offers a view of his country not from the privileged and insulated perspective of the foreign correspondent of well-heeled visitor, but that of the ordinary person who, with the help of dry wit and illegal beer, pokes fun at the rich and mighty. Struggling against drivers, pompous bureaucrats and the other woes of life in the city, the man in the shebeen sees modern Africa as it really is, not as press releases or tourist brochures would have us believe.  

Shadows  
Publisher: Heinemann (October 1992)  
ISBN-10: 0435905910  

The novel was inspired when the author witnessed two young lovers who opted for death instead of life. The two lovers are innocents in a world where people have little control over their lives, struggling to survive in a barren land.

Up in Arms
Publisher: Zimbabwe Pub. House (1982)  
ISBN-10: 0949932175  

In the late 1970s, Hove taught at rural schools and witnessed horrific aspects of the war of liberation, an experience registered in the anger and compassion pervading Up in Arms (1982), his first collection of poetry.

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Miami: City of Refuge is a project of the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College, which is made possible by the generous financial support of the Knight Foundation. The projects mission is to provide a safe haven for persecuted writers for a period of two years. In January of 2010, the Center welcomed its inaugural Miami: City of Refuge writer-in-residence,  

The Center is a member of an international organization called ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) which identifies persecuted writers and aids their safe transition to member cities around the world. The goal is to afford writers a place to live and work free of oppression and share their unique stories with their adopted communities.

Mr. Hove is here in Miami until December 2011 and will share in solidarity his story of exile with students and the community and will write about the issues of political repression and social justice in his native Zimbabwe.

For more information about Hove, please visit http://www.flcenterlitarts.com/mcor/index.htm. and www.miamicityofrefuge.org

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