FIU MFA Program Well-Represented at Miami Book Fair International

Miami Book Fair International is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week. FIU’s Creative Writing program will be well-represented, with faculty, students, and alumni among the more than 300 authors who’ll be presenting at the Festival of Authors. Here’s a quick listing of those from FIU, the works they’ll be reading from and/or speaking about, with the day time of the presentation.  For rooms and other details, please see the complete Book Fair Schedule online.  (And at the Fair, pick up a printed copy which will be updated with any changes.)

To find out what goes on at the sessions you miss, you can read The Florida Book Review's annual Book Fair blog,  reported this year by a record number of FIU MFA alumni and graduate students, including FBR Editor Lynne Barrett’s Literary Journalism class.

Saturday, Nov. 23:

11:30 AM: Richard Blanco (Looking for the Gulf Motel) and Campbell McGrath (In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys)
1 PM: E. Parker Phillips (Panel: Queer Poetry/Queer Differences)

1:30 PM: Nina Romano (She Wouldn’t Sing at My Wedding) and Laura Valeri (Safe in Your Head)

3 PM: Julie Marie Wade (Postage Due)

3:30 PM: Joe Clifford (Junkie Love)

4 PM: Campbell McGrath (Florida Book Awards)

4 PM: The Miami Poetry Collective & Cent Journal, the “How To” issue, including: Annik Adey-Babinski, Marci Calabretta, Paul Christiansen, P. Scott Cunningham, Dawn S. Davies, Yaddyra Peralta, and Nick Vagnoni

Sunday, Nov. 24:

 11 AM: John Dufresne (Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting)

11:30: Anjanette Delgado, panel: El mercado del libro en español en Estados Unidos: situación, evolución, y opportunidades

12:30 PM: James W. Hall (Going Dark)

2 PM: John Dufresne (No Regrets, Coyote)

3:30 PM: Patricia Engel (It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris)

4 PM: Melanie Neale (Boat Kid)

4:30 PM: Richard Blanco (For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey)

4:30 PM: Preston Allen (Every Boy Should Have a Man)

5 PM: Tigertail, A South Florida Annual: Sunstruck Matches, a reading, including Elisa Albo, J.J. Colagrande, Andrea Dulanto, Jesse Millner, and Lauren Doyle Owen

5 PM: All that Glitters: Nonfiction from Sliver of Stone, a reading, including Jan Becker, M.J. Fievre, Nicholas Garnett, and Fabienne Sylvia Josaphat

Cover essay on the work of Denise Duhamel in The Hollins Critic

Cover image of Denise Duhamel
by Susan Avishai, The Hollins Critic

The October 2013 issue of The Hollins Critic features a cover essay by Julie Marie Wade, "Survival of the Feminist: The Socially Lived Poetics of Denise Duhamel." In its 50th year, The Hollins Critic "features the first serious surveys of the whole bodies of contemporary writers' work, with complete checklists." An excerpt from the piece can be read on The Hollins Critic's website. In it, Wade writes, "Whether we view her as an avowed feminist whose feminism takes poetic form, or a widely published poet whose poetry embodies feminist ideals, Denise Duhamel is an underdog. She is working in literature's most marginalized genre to illuminate a worldview that three-fourths of Americans purport not to care about or understand. This would appear to be an impossible mission, both formally and ideologically. Fortunately, Duhamel is the perfect person for the job."

Duhamel, Professor of English at Florida International University, is the author of more than twenty books and chapbooks and guest-editor of the just-released Best American Poetry 2013.