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 getting into a really good Youtube video.For novelists and poets though, a writer's conference can be just the thing to get those fingers back on the keys. Problem is most of them are damned expensive. Solu
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 Florida Poetry Annual, and the debut and reading is tonight at Books & Books (265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables) beginning at 7:30 p.m.It only comes out once a year, so miss it tonight and you'll hav
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 small family farm, until one summer in high school, he got a chance to attend a program called Boys State. Run by the American Legion, Boys State functions much like a rural Model U.N., except the fo
