Writer. Trustee @PENamerica Chair @omiamifestival Council member @NMAAHC Trustee @TheBassMoA Chair emeritus, Fulbright Scholarship Board
Miami and NYC
Joined August 2009
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Emerging from a formerly-Twitter silence to share something I wrote.
Joel Shapiro, the Kennedy Center, and what happens when one of the cardinal points on your map moves.
For The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
I love being a juror for The Gotham Book Prize. Our terrific 2024 finalists have been announced timeout.com/newyork/news/att… #gothambookprize
I'm honored to be a juror for the $50k Gotham Book Prize. Here are our 2024 finalists. lithub.com/here-are-the-2024… via @lithub #gothambookprize
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Thanks and praise for our founder, @cunningpscott With O, Miami, he brought poetry to the people. Now he’s stepping down | WLRN @omiamifestival wlrn.org/arts-culture/2024-0…
Bittersweet news about one of Miami's best. We love you, Scott! Poetry nonprofit O, Miami founder steps down | Miami Herald @omiamifestival @cunningpscott miamiherald.com/entertainmen…
PEN America invites writers who exited festival over Gaza to discuss ‘divergent views’. And we are working to get aid to Palestinian writers, journalists and their families. #ceasefire @PENamerica theguardian.com/books/2024/m…
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Grateful to have my poem "Mirror, Mirror" on theThe Slowdown for February 26, 2024 Thank you, thank you! @Poet_Major ❤️pages.connect.americanpublic…
This laughing while you're gut-punched piece was set for the op-ed page of @nytimes but they killed it. Read it! open.substack.com/pub/shalom…
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And he still does!
He Brought an Artistic Flair to the Knight Foundation's Philanthropy - The New York Times - goo.gl/alerts/roiyMX #GoogleAlerts
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I head someone chopping wood this morning and thought of that Philip Larkin poem, “This is the first thing/I have understood:/Time is the echo of an axe/Within a wood.”
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"Think about mornings. They’re when the purest sense of what we are doing, or not doing, with our temporary habitation of the Earth sinks in." Peter Schjeldahl RIP
Filmmaker Amos Poe is our friend and now he needs all of us @Amospoe_10
gofund.me/b5d93cdb
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A joy to write the essay for a beautiful new monograph on the paintings of Scott Kahn, what I call his "color-bursting cosmos of eccentricity." @scottkahnart @AlmineRech
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This is infuriating. theguardian.com/world/2022/o…
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Excellent read.
A world of authentic, post-spin journalism: The dream Jon Stewart spent a decade making real is now America’s waking nightmare. What did he get so wrong?
Now unpaywalled — the best piece of media criticism you'll read this year:
thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
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Poetry everywhere! For all of us. #inclusionmatters @omiamifestival #miami
You can now read Brl Odes poems 📝 at our Parks in braille! @omiamifestival’s Brl Odes creates public placards featuring poems by Miamians translated into #braille.👩🏽🦯 These placards are at Women’s Park, Tropical Park, MLK Park and Matheson Hammock Park. #InclusionMatters
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Wait a minute @MiamiNewTimes You are lying to yr customers. Yr not giving option-required by law-to opt out of invasive surveillance & sale of our informaron. Most make it easy. Why are you deliberately making it impossible? #surveillance #dishonesty #shame #privacy
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Excellent piece on battling inflation--not that I'm the least bit biased :)
#Inflation and rising prices are kitchen-table issues that all voters understand. Easing import restrictions and reducing #tariffs need to be part of our toolkit to tame inflation. My latest in today's @WSJ on why: wsj.com/articles/imports-wou…
O, Miami Poetry Festival is named The Best Festival in Miami. Being completely unbiased - lol - I agree! Best Of Miami® 2022: miaminewtimes.com/best-of/20… @omiamifestival @cunningpscott @knightfdn
