Miami Book Fair
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Miami, FL 33132
United States
VIRTUAL EVENT
Join the Miami Book Fair for a conversation between Benjamin Garcia, author of Thrown in the Throat, and Kazim Ali, the judge who selected Garcia’s manuscript for the National Poetry Series. Details here!
Special introduction by Daniel Halpern, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series.
Benjamin Garcia
Benjamin Garcia’s first collection of poems, Thrown in the Throat, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali is the author of Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water, as well as several volumes of poetry, novels, essay collections, and cross-genre texts. He is currently a professor of Literature and Writing at the University of California, San Diego.
Thrown in the Throat is a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times.