Escribe Aquí/Write Here Cafecito

Join us for the opening event of Escribe Aquí / Write Here 2024 Festival on August 3, 2024 at The Betsy Hotel. Hosted by Caridad Moro Gronlier, Poet Laureate for Miami-Dade County, featuring Poet Laureate of Hot Springs, Arkansas, 2024 Betsy Escribe Aquí Fellow Kai Coggin.

IN THE PATH OF TOTALITY, UMBRAL ILLUMINATION

By Kai Coggin

Let’s use this celestial moment in universal time.

Use this day to eclipse

the moments you want to leave behind.

See your own personal path and totality today,

your own unique world of wholeness,

the perfect swirling universe of you.

See that you have everything you need already inside you.

Kiss the journey below your own perfect feet,

your feet that brought you to this perfect moment.

You are holy.

You are sacred.

You are enough.

The Betsy - South Beach, a world-leading boutique luxury property known for innovative arts and culture programs, announces The Betsy’s 10th Annual Escribe Aquí/Write Here Festival schedule to take place from August 4-6, 2024. This year’s program includes residencies for 8 writers in The Betsy Writers Room and "Cafecito" coffee conversations with participating artists.

The Betsy’s Escribe Aquí/Write Here honors artists who ‘do their creative work’ at the intersection of arts, culture and identity and gives a special nod to those working in Miami, where over 70% of residents live in multi-lingual, culturally diverse, homes. Escribe Aquí was created in 2015 at The Betsy with support from The Knight Foundation by Cuban-American writer Pablo Cartaya (pablocartaya.com) and Pedro Medina Leon (PedroMedinaLeon.com), Peruvian writer/founder of SoFla publisher, Suburbano Ediciones. Our new programming partners for 2024 are the FIU-Wolfsonian Humanities Lab and the Iris Photo Collective. Our new lead funding partner is the Perez CreATE program.

Presented with special thanks to our community Partners:

The Betsy Hotel, The Betsy Community Fund, The PG Family Foundation, Perez CreARTE, FIU-Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, Jewish Book Council, collaboARTive, Ocean Drive Association Promenade Concert Series, City of Miami Beach, Caridad Moro-Gronlier: Poet Laureate of Miami Dade County.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Betsy Hotel, 1440 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, United States