Miami, April 22, 2016 – Miami Dade College’s acclaimed Miami Book Fair (MBF) presents the Working Poet Radio Show (WPRS), a live-recorded late-night-style talk show dedicated to the working lives of creative people, at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 30. The event is free and open to the public.
For National Poetry Month, WPRS features The Dark Noise Collective, an award-winning nationwide, multiracial, multi-genre collective featuring some of the most exciting, insightful, and powerful poets writing today. Dark Noise is composed of Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, Aaron Samuels, Danez Smith, and Jamila Woods. These poets, diverse in content and form, find common ground in their commitment to using art as a site for radical truth-telling. They explore themes of identity, intersectionality, trauma, and healing in accessible forms without sacrificing the highest standards of poetic craft.
Dark Noise explodes archaic notions of page vs. stage with their dynamism in all arenas of verse. Dark Noise poets have been featured on film and television projects including HBO’s Brave New Voices, TV One’s Verses and Flow, and Louder than a Bomb. They have been featured at venues across four continents, including Madison Square Garden, Sweden’s National Poetry Slam, Sanaa Africa Festival and The Apollo Theater.
They are well-published poets who have garnered honors such as Ruth Lilly Dorothy Rosenberg Fellowships, State Arts Council grants, Pushcart nominations, and a host of publication awards. In addition, the artists bring a wealth of collective experience as organizers and educators who have worked to establish spoken word as a tool for critical engagement and entertainment.
Co-presented with O, Miami Poetry Festival, the Working Poet Radio Show will be hosted by author and journalist Joseph Lapin.
WHAT: Miami Book Fair Presents the Working Poet Radio Show
WHEN: Saturday, April 30, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
WHERE: Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami, FL 33137