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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Poetry and Music
LOCATION:West Kendall Regional\nWest Kendall Regional
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DESCRIPTION:Experience the fiery rhythms of Latin America with Baby B Stri
 ngs\, featuring Cuban cellist José Pradas and violinist Belinda Niling 
 Stohner. Then enjoy Las Tres Poetas—Caridad Moro-Gronlier\, Mia Leo
 nin and Silvia Curbelo—as they share poetry and conversation explor
 ing identity\, family\, memory\, resilience\, and community. Join us for a
 n inspiring bilingual celebration of Hispanidad\, amistad y poesía.  Fo
 r more information contact 305-385-7135 or lopezp@mdpls.org. Ages 18 yrs.+
 \n\n.\nhttps://mdpls.libnet.info/event/17030847
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Biographies</strong></p>\n<p><stro
 ng>Caridad Moro-Gronlier</strong>&nbsp\;is the Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade
  County and the author of&nbsp\;Tortillera&nbsp\;(TRP\, 2021)\, winner of 
 the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize\; and&nbsp\;Visionware&nbsp\;(F
 inishing Line Press\, 2009). She is the editor of&nbsp\;Grabbed: Poets and
  Writers Respond to Sexual Assault\, Empowerment and Healing&nbsp\;(Beacon
  Press\, 2020). Her work explores identity\, queerness\, family\, and cult
 ural heritage. She serves as Associate Editor of&nbsp\;SWWIM Every Day\, a
  daily poetry journal for women-identifying poets\, and Poetry Curator-at-
 Large for The Betsy Writer&rsquo\;s Room. She lives in Miami with her wife
  and son.</p>\n<p><strong>Mia Leonin</strong> is the author of four poetry
  collections: Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child (BkMk Press)\, which won an I
 nternational Latino Book Award. Anhinga Press published her books Braid\, 
 Unraveling the Bed\, and Chance Born (Anhinga Press). Leonin has also publ
 ished a memoir\, Havana and Other Missing Fathers (University of Arizona P
 ress). Recent work appears in the Indiana Review and the Southern Review. 
 Leonin teaches creative writing at the University of Miami.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p
 ><strong>Silvia Curbelo</strong> is the author of two full-length poetry c
 ollections\, Falling Landscape and The&nbsp\;Secret History of Water\, bot
 h available from Anhinga Press\, and two chapbooks. She has&nbsp\;received
  poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Florida
  Division of Cultural Affairs\, the Cintas Foundation and the Writer&rsquo
 \;s Voice\, as well as the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Poetry Prize from America
 n Poetry Review. Her poems have been published widely in literary journals
  and more than three dozen anthologies and textbooks\, including Poems\, P
 oets\, Poetry (Bedford/St Martin) and the Norton Anthology of Latino Liter
 ature. A native of Cuba\, Silvia lives in Tampa\, Florida.</p>\nhttps://md
 pls.libnet.info/event/17030847
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