By Franky Cruz, AIRIE Fellow Photograph by Monica Mcgivern /Franky Cruz Concrete houses made of paper and robotic soldiers at war against their enemies of heat and humidity surround me as they keep the indoors cozy. I sit somewhere in Mayami on a tiny patch of grass between cuboids made to shelter humans from the […]
Article · July 6, 2015 by Lissette Mendez
RELATED LINKS “Serious fun at The Swamp – and everywhere – at Miami Book Fair International” by Fernando González on Knight Blog, 11/17/14 “Miami Book Fair International kicks off its 31st edition with the weird and wonderful” by Michael D. Bolden on Knight Blog, 11/17/14 “Miami Book Fair International opens Sunday” by Mitchell Kaplan on […]
Article · November 13, 2014 by Lissette Mendez
Each year, Miami Dade College throws a party for book lovers in Downtown Miami. About 200,000 people join us to hear from some of the world’s greatest authors, in one of the biggest book fairs in the country, under our warm November sun. Related Links “Serious fun at The Swamp – and everywhere – at […]
Article · November 10, 2014 by Lissette Mendez
Lissette Mendez is director of programs for Miami Book Fair International, which Knight Foundation supports. Image: ‘Somewhere.’ For Sweat Broadside Project II, artists and writers collaborated on pairing original artwork with poems. The Swamp, a new event space at Miami Book Fair International sponsored by Knight Foundation, celebrates the writers, filmmakers, visual artists and musicians (and […]
Article · October 31, 2014 by Lissette Mendez