About this Event
Celebrate the release of Ariel Francisco's latest poetry collection, , published by Burrow Press.
Enjoy a bilingual reading from the new book by Ariel Francisco and his Spanish translator Francisco Henriquez, as well as a reading by current Kerouac House resident Steve Chang. Q&A to follow. Bring beer, wine, or nonalcoholic beverages to share.
about the book.
In his fourth collection of poems, Ariel Francisco mourns a Miami already ruined by climate change and development, and meditates on the future ruins of a city reclaimed by the sea. From constant flooding to the construction of a hulking Margaritaville on Hollywood Beach, Francisco weaves an elegy to a city in existential limbo with a blend of anger, humor, sadness, and insight. This edition includes Spanish translations by Francisco Henriquez that appear beside the original English.
about the author.
Ariel Francisco is the author of All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins (Burrow Press, 2024), Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press, 2022), and A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020), and the translator of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud’s Poet of One Island (Get Fresh Books, 2024) and Guatemalan poet Hael Lopez’s Routines/Goodbyes (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, POETRY Magazine, The New York City Ballet, Latino Book Review, and elsewhere. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.
Funding for this program was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Jack Kerouac House, 1418 Clouser Avenue, Orlando, United States
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