Poet Major Jackson
MAJOR JACKSON is the author of six books of poetry, including “Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems” (2023), “The Absurd Man” (2020), “Roll Deep” (2015), “Holding Company” (2010), “Hoops” (2006) and “Leaving Saturn” (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.
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Celebrating Black History Month
In celebration of BLACK HISTORY MONTH, 2024, we have curated a group of video interviews from the ArtSpeak archives with prominent people in the arts, who are connected to the Miami and South Florida areas.
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Katja Esson: Filmmaker
KATJA ESSON is an Academy Award® nominated filmmaker based in Miami and Havana who mixes documentary and narrative genres.
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Beverly & Anders Gyllenhaal: For the Birds
Retired from long careers in journalism, BEVERLY & ANDERS GYLLENHAAL have been documenting vanishing populations of birds since 2010, producing the website https://flyinglessons.us/ and authoring the book “A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds.”
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David Rosenberg: Playwright, Actor
DAVID ROSENBERG is a New York City-based actor and playwright, most recently in the Broadway cast of Death of a Salesman. He graduated with his MFA from The Juilliard School in 2019. He was born and raised in Miami.
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Judy Rakowsky: Journalist, Author
JUDY RAKOWSKY is the author of the critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction book “Jews in the Garden.” A career journalist, she spent decades on deadline as an award-winning reporter and editor at the Boston Globe, People Magazine, the Providence Journal, and other outlets.
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