Book Launch + Open Mic with Oscar Fuentes in the Grove!

BOOK LAUNCH + OPEN MIC

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Oscar Fuentes'new book, Biscayne Inferno and Other Stories (Jitney Books). This will be more than a reading; it’s a community celebration. After the launch, we’re opening up the mic for poets and storytellers to share their voices. Bring your words, your energy, and join us for a night of Miami-inspired stories.

***Please note: This event will take place at the Books & Books' Coconut Grove location at 3409 Main Hwy, Coconut Grove, FL 33133, United States. Tickets are FREE.

About the Book:

Biscayne Inferno and Other Stories is a hallucinatory blend of apocalyptic noir and Miami mythmaking, where the city itself becomes both crucible and character. In the title novella, Biscayne Inferno, Oscar Fuentes, The Biscayne Poet, plunges readers into a drowned Miami, a surreal landscape of ghost typewriters, floodwaters, and shattered lives. Through visceral, cinematic prose, he crafts a world where survival collides with memory, and every choice echoes with violence, love, and longing. Alongside Biscayne Inferno, Fuentes delivers a collection of short stories and poems that move from raw urban grit to intimate lyricism, revealing Miami as both paradise and inferno, a place where history, myth, and personal ghosts converge. For fans of speculative fiction, literary noir, and poetic storytelling, Biscayne Inferno and Other Stories is a vivid, unforgettable descent into a city on fire and underwater, told by one of Miami’s most original voices.

About the Oscar Fuentes:

Born in Manhattan, New York, to immigrant parents from Honduras, Oscar Fuentes is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, who has been sharing his talents and love of the arts for more than 30 years. Known by his moniker, The Biscayne Poet, Oscar has dedicated more than three decades to sharing his talents and passion for the arts. He is the author of 10 books of poetry and prose, including Beautiful Women Will Never Know (2013), 4 Nights With Betsy (2014), Vagabond: Selected Poems, Short Stories, and Plays (2015), Welcome Home: Poems inspired by 1Hotel South Beach (2019), and For the Love of Leotards (2022). Honey & Sting (2023), Relics of the Heart (2024). Oscar has also been featured in illustrated zine publications such as, Body Furnace (2021), The Cock Fight (2022), and Oscar The Clown (2022).

Oscar was also recognized by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava with the inaugural Miami-Dade Mayoral Poetry Commendation in recognition of outstanding contributions to the county’s literary art community. He is represented by Indie Earth Books and uses typewriter tape for a mustache.

Connect with Oscar on Social: @thebiscaynepoet.