An Evening with Oscar Fuentes followed by Open Mic Night!

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In Geography of Light, Oscar Fuentes, known as The Biscayne Poet, maps a life shaped by family, marriage, fatherhood, memory, and the luminous terrain of Miami. Blending memoir and lyric meditation, this collection traces the shifting coastlines between son and father, husband and wife, and artist and public servant.

Set against the humid light of Biscayne Bay and the layered cultural landscape of Miami, the poems move from intimate domestic spaces to civic duty and back again. Fuentes writes of love not as abstraction but as practice: the daily discipline of marriage, the awe of watching children become themselves, and the quiet, defiant presence required when a parent’s memory begins to fade. The book’s emotional center rests in its reckoning with aging and filial devotion—where visits become acts of resistance against erasure, and light itself becomes a metaphor for attention, endurance, and grace.
Structured as a cartography of relationships rather than places, Geography of Lightcharts the inherited maps we carry and the new ones we must draw. It is a meditation on the feminine as true north, on fatherhood as stewardship, and on memory as both fragile coastline and sacred ground.
At once elegiac and celebratory, this collection affirms that permanence is an illusion, but presence is a choice. In the shifting geography between shadow and illumination, Fuentes argues that love, faithfully practiced, is the only landmark that remains.

Born in Manhattan, New York to immigrant parents from Honduras, Oscar Fuentes, known as The Biscayne Poet, is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist who has been a dedicated force in the arts for over 30 years. Currently promoting his latest book, Geography of Light (2026), Oscar’s work captures the spirit of family and memory.

Oscar is the author of 13 books, including Relics of the Heart: Stories of my Family(2024), Poetry City (2025), and Biscayne Inferno and Other Stories (2025). His unique presence recently earned him a feature on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Miami, where he showcased his typewriter poetry performance.
Oscar also hosts a poet-in-residency program at the 1 Hotel South Beach, where he writes on his typewriter for the public every Saturday afternoon, bringing poetry to the community in a vibrant, interactive way. In recognition of his contributions to Miami’s literary community, he was awarded the inaugural Miami-Dade Mayoral Poetry Commendation by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. Represented by Indie Earth Books and Jitney Books, Oscar brings a Miami-inspired style to his art, even down to his signature typewriter-tape mustache.

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Books & Books, 3409 Main Highway, Miami, United States

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