Miami Poetry Collective

Important Announcement

FIVE CENT JOURNAL AND MPC T-SHIRTS

Miami Poetry Collective t-shirts emblazoned with our signature logo are now available for sale at all MPC events for $10. 4 Cent Journal is sold out but a few copies of 5 Cent Journal are still available. Find them exclusively at MPC events. As always, the price is in the name and we don't make change.

Schedule of Upcoming Events, Readings, etc.

Poetry Workshop: "Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Sincerity"

Feb 02, 06:30PM until Mar 23, 08:30PM

Miami-Dade College Wolfson Campus, 300 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33132 (map)

In this poetry workshop, we’ll read and write imitatations of poems we admire, in addition to sharing our drafts and giving brief presentations.

Please join P. Scott Cunningham for this eight session workshop at Miami-Dade College, sponsored by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. Tuesdays from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. from February 2 to March 23, 2010. To register, click here.

P. Scott Cunningham is the director of the University of Wynwood, an advocacy organization for the spoken and written word in Miami. His poetry has been published in The Harvard Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Pool, Court Green, Cider Press Review, Roanoke Review, the Northville Review and Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual. A nominee for a 2009 United States Artist Grant, he also serves as president of the Miami Poetry Collective and editor of the Cent Journal Series.

Poem Depot Valentine's Day Edition

Feb 13, 07:00PM until 10:30PM

Between Gallery Diet and World Class Boxing on the corner of NW 23rd St and NW 1st Place, Miami, FL 33127 (map)

Need a last minute gift for that special someone? Trying to make an impression on an attractive stranger? Need a cleverly worded "Yes, I'm really breaking up with you on Valentine's Day" note? Stop by the Poem Depot during Second Saturday's Wynwood Art Walk, and the Miami Poetry Collective will hand-craft a Valentine's Day ode, missive, or curse for you on one of our manual typewriters.

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MPC in the news

From the Miami Herald: Wanna buy a poem? Miami Poetry Collective sells words on the go (10/04/2009)

WLRN's Under the Sun profiled the MPC as part of its examination of Literary South Florida. (06/27/2009)

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