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November 20, 2014

My Ideal Schedule - Miami Book Fair International 2014

Saturday, November 22

Time	Location	Event
10:00 a.m.	Room 8201	Jen Karetnick on Brie Season, Chelsea Rathburn on A Raft of Grief: Poems, Danniel Schoonebeek on American Barricade and Elisa Albo on Each Day More
11:30 a.m.	Room 8201	The National Book Awards present the 2014 Winners and Finalists for Poetry including Fanny Howe, Claudia Rankine and Maureen N. McLane
12:00 p.m.	Auditorium	Mark Strand: A Poetry Reading and Tribute with Jorie Graham and Charles Wright
12:30 p.m.	Room 8202	Heather McPherson on Good Catch: Recipes and Stories Celebrating the Best of Florida's Waters; Jen Karetnick on Mango; and Mark DeNote on The Great Florida Craft Beer Guide
2:00 p.m.	Chapman Conference Center	Black Prophetic Fires: African American Leaders and Their Visionary Legacies

3:30 p.m.	Batten	The Fire This Time: Miami Book Fair Honors James Baldwin
3:30 p.m.	Room 8201	A Poetry Reading: Carolyn Forché on Poetry of Witness, Bob Holman on Sing This One Back to Me and Stanley Plumly The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb
4:30 p.m.	Room 8201	A Poetry Reading: Kimiko Hahn on Brain Fever: Poems, Vijay Seshadri on 3 Sections: Poems, Peg Boyers on To Forget Venice, Carl Phillips on Silverchest: Poems and Denise Duhamel on Blowout

Sunday, November 23

Time	Location	Event
11:00 a.m.	Room 8525	Future Tense: Independence, Diversity and the Future of Jamaican Publishing
12:00 p.m.	Room 8503	Rick Bragg on Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
12:30 p.m.	Auditorium	Stuart Dybek on Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories, Russell Banks on A Permanent Member of the Family and Mary Gordon on The Liar's Wife: Four Novellas
1:00 p.m.	Room 7106	Mary Simses on The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café, John Warley on A Southern Girl: A Novel, Anjanette Delgado on The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho and Sam Barry on Her Wild Oats by Kathi Kamen Goldmark
1:30 p.m.	Room 8201	*A Poetry Reading: Mervyn Taylor on The Waving Gallery,* Saeed Jones on Prelude to Bruise and Catherine Bowman on The Plath Cabinet
2:00 p.m.	Auditorium	Marlon James on A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel, Francisco Goldman on The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle, and Nuruddin Farah on Hiding in Plain Sight: A Novel
2:00 p.m.	Chapman Conference Center	Two Lives: Charles M. Blow on Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoirand Richard Blanco on The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood

3:00 p.m.	Room 1164	Fairy Tales Told and Re-told: Russ Kick on The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature, Van Jensen on Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer: Complete Edition, Ted Naifeh on Princess Ugg and Heidi Schulz onHook's Revenge
3:00 p.m.	Room 8201	A Poetry Reading: Barbara Hamby on Street of Divine Love, Michael Hettich on Systems of Vanishing and Tony Hoagland on Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays
4:00 p.m.	Room 8303	Lauren Francis-Sharma on 'Til the Well Runs Dry, Elizabeth Nunez on Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir, Carole Boyce Davies on Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones and Tiphanie Yanique on Land of Love and Drowning

November 10, 2010

Caribbean Writers @ Miami Book Fair International

The 27th edition of the nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International, presented by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts (FCLA) at Miami Dade College (MDC), will take place November 14 - 21, 2010, at the college’s Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami.

Scheduled Caribbean Programs

Saturday, November 20 at 10am in Room 3314
Panelists: Michele Voltaire Marcelin, Ruth-Miriam Garnett, Diana McCaulay and Mervyn Taylor

Saturday, November 20 at 11:30am in Room 3314
Panelists: Gideon Hanoomansingh, Merle Hodge, Earl Lovelace, Selwyn Cudjoe
1970: Black Power Revolution, 1990 Coup d’état (Trinidad), Grenada occupation 1983

Saturday, November 20 @ 3:30 pm. Room 3315 (Building 3, 3rd Floor)
Presenting will be Heather Russell & Donna Weir Soley

Sunday, November 21 at 2pm in Room 7106.
To present Earl Lovelace: Is’ Just a Movie, Norberto Fuentes and Mark Kurlansky.

Sunday, November 21 @ 1:00 pm. Room 3410 (Building 3, 4th Floor)
Geoffrey Philp reads from DUB WISE.

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