Miami Dade College
Building 8, Third Floor
Room 8303
315 NE 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33132
United States
This event is free and open to the public as a part of the Miami Book Fair programming. More info forthcoming.
Join Keith S. Wilson and Rosalie Moffett at the 2025 Miami Book Fair for “ON POETRY, PRIZES, AND PUBLISHING,” a panel in conversation and moderated by Simone Zapata. Together they will read poems from their newest books and discuss the lifespan of a poetry collection from manuscript-in-progress to published book. They will also reveal what it’s really like to win (and judge) book prizes and balance writing, careers, and the rest of life.
Keith S. Wilson
Keith S. Wilson is a game designer, an Affrilachian Poet, and a Cave Canem fellow.
Rosalie Moffett
Rosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System, which won the National Poetry Series Prize and was listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book, and June in Eden.
Radiant with a tenderness that is only achieved through close attention, these poems offer witnessing and formalistic exploration as well as a unique cosmology that is made ever more expansive by blurred lines between the instructional and the improvisational. For Keith Wilson, no image, thought, stanza, or diagram is sufficient in the practice of illumination, so he combines them.
A brilliant and lithe collection of poems making space for the resolve and hope of motherhood amid consumerist dreams and nightmares.