Campbell McGrath

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Pop-up Poem Shops

We Do Haiku: Artists Wax Poetic About Lack of Arts Funding

Creative CommonsWhen life gives you a dearth of arts funding, make haikus! The Knight Foundation and the University of Wynwood recently cosponsored "Do You Haiku" -- a contest to find the best haikus written about the impact of Miami-Dade's lack of arts funding. They received a grand response; it tu ... More >>

Miami Book Fair: Poet Tom Healy

Tom Healy​There was no indication, early on, that Tom Healy would become a poet. Growing up on a farm in upstate New York, in an environment he describes as "brutalizing in every aspect," Healy didn't get much intellectual encouragement. Mostly, he spent his time doing the hard work required on a ... More >>

The Kitchen Was on Fire and the Poetry Was Free

Miami Book Fair: Poet Marie Ponsot

Leading up to Miami Book Fair International, Riptide 2.0 will be publishing profiles of visiting authors. Check back often as two to three will going up per day until Sunday, November 15.Marie Ponsot is the best poet you've never heard of.Photo by Michael Lionstar​Her first book, True Minds, was p ... More >>

Three by Free

Tigertail Debuts New Poetry Annual

Tigertail ProductionsCover by Susan Lee-Chun​Edited by local poets Campbell McGrath, Denise Duhamel, and Michael Hettich. Art by Miami's own Susan Lee-Chun. Poetry by FIU alums Jill Allen and Hugo Rodriguez, plus Yayha Frederickson. What's not to like?It's the seventh version of Tigertail: A South ... More >>

Your Second Saturday Guide, Now with 40 Percent More Art Gluttony

Start massaging your art belly because this weekend's buffet of openings is going to stretch your ocular capacity. (Mixed metaphor disaster...Campbell McGrath, I have failed you!) Tomorrow is the first Second Saturday of the fall season, as gallery owners and artists return from vacations, fellowsh ... More >>

Book Fair Announces Author List

WikicommonsHunter S. Thompson at the 1988 Fair​Artists have Basel. Filmmakers have MIFF. Geniuses have the Book Fair.My inner nerd (well, maybe it's outer, too...) did the running man this morning when it saw PR-extraordinaire Lisa Palley's email announcing the Author List for the 2009 Miami Book ... More >>

Where the Poetry Roams

Hutchinson Island Writer's Conference Early Bird Special

WikicommonsIs this your idol?All you hard-drinking, never-novel-finishing people out there, listen up. Sometimes we all need a jump start. Ours over here at the Miami New Times is that cruel Muse we call "Deadline", whose red tail is forever smacking us in the back of the head just when we're gettin ... More >>

Miami Book Fair International

The graphic novel reigns at this year's edition.

Letters from the Issue of February 9, 2006

Our letters section has gone to the dogs

One Dead Groove

TV stars and literary, um, luminaries try to entertain a distant dog

Words Escape Us

PERSONAL BEST

Samantha Haber of the South Miami Branch Library

Hit Picks of Miami Lit

In which local authors and aficionados list their favorites

Luna Stage

Really, this is a curated open mike, you don't have to worry

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Lord's Fair

Sweet Jesus addresses a pop icon rather than religious leader at the book fair

Best Book By A Local Author

Fathers Aren't Supposed to Die: Five Brothers Reunite to Say Goodbye

Poetic Ocean View

The Sound, Symbols Project

Letters

Adventures in Metaphorland

7-Elevens, Laundromats, bowling alleys, People magazine, the Discovery Channel, Elvis. Poet Campbell McGrath mines deep into pop culture and hits a vein.

Calendar for the week

Readers Digest

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