Book Release Reading: Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi with Tara Betts

﻿O,Miamicelebrates South Florida through the empathy-building power of poetry.  Throughout the year, we teach poetry in schools, host a month-long festival, and publish poems in books and unexpected places like rooftops, billboards, and fences using a process called Civic Publishing. Our work is an act of love for this city, inviting residents to share their stories and write a new one together. For more, visitomiami.org.To request materials in accessible format, sign language interpreters, and/or any disability accommodation, please contact Melody Santiago Cummings (melody@omiami.org) five days in advance to initiate your request. TTY users may also call 711 (Florida Relay Service)._In attending an O, Miami event, I understand that my likeness may be captured and I hereby grant O, Miami, inc. permission to use my likeness in a photograph, video, or other digital media in any and all of its publications, including web-based publications. I waive any right to inspect or approve the finished product wherein my likeness appears. Additionally, I waive any right to royalties or other compensation for purposes of publicizing O, Miami, inc. programs or other lawful purpose without payment or any other consideration related to the use of the media.

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Join online to celebrate Cave Canem 2023 prize winner Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi!

Our annual book prize reading celebrates the winner of a contest run by our partner, Cave Canem, the nation’s foremost poetry organization supporting Black poets. Join online to celebrate Cave Canem 2023 prize winner Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi! She is joined by contest judge Tara Betts. <ul><li>Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | 2-3 pm</li><li>Online Event</li><li>Free and open to the public</li></ul> Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, Frontier I, is a Nigerian-Hausa poet, digital artist, and photographer. She graduated from the School of Medical Laboratory Science at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. She is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Sixteen Songs of Loss—selected as a finalist by Rita Mookerjee for the Sundress Publications Chapbook Competition—and the winner of the inaugural Folorunsho Editor’s Poetry Prize, the Labari Poetry Prize, the inaugural Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature, and the Gimba Suleiman Hassan Gimba ESQ Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Fiyah Literary Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Agbowo, The Deadlands, Torch Literary Arts, Arc Poetry Magazine, Ake Review, Native Skin, The Drift, Lucent Dreaming, 20.35 Africa, Canthius, Trampset, and elsewhere. About Cave Canem The Derricotte/Eady Prize is presented annually by Cave Canem and co-sponsored by O, Miami Poetry Festival, Jai-Alai Books, and The Writer’s Room at The Betsy Hotel. This year’s judge was Tara Betts. For more information, visit <a href="https://cavecanempoets.org/" title="https://cavecanempoets.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">cavecanempoets.org</a>About The Betsy-South Beach Situated at the edge of the Atlantic, The Betsy–South Beach is the host hotel for wide-ranging programs that embrace the richness of global arts and culture. Since opening in 2012, The Betsy Writer’s Room has hosted more than 1,000 authors, artists, and thought leaders, including notable poets W.S. Merwin, Nikky Finney, and Robert Haas. The Betsy’s poetry programs are inspired by the work of mid-century poet Hyam Plutzik, three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and father of Betsy Hotel owner Jonathan Plutzik. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.thebetsywritersroom.com/" title="http://www.thebetsywritersroom.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.thebetsywritersroom.com</a> and <a href="http://www.thebetsyhotel.com/" title="http://www.thebetsyhotel.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.thebetsyhotel.com</a> Accessibility To request materials in an accessible format, sign language interpreters, and/or any accommodation, please contact Alanna Siemer at programs2@omiami.org five days in advance to initiate your request. TTY users may also call 711 (Florida Relay Service).

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