O Miami Poetry Festival | Before Night Falls: Film, Poetry, and Drag - Before Night Falls: Poetry, Film, and Drag Presented in partnership with Flaming Classics 7:30-10 pm | $15 | 16+ | Register here
“Before Night Falls: The Poetic Life Of Reinaldo Arenas” commemorates the legacy of the Cuban writer and dissident through poetry, cinema, and performance. The evening begins with an introduction to Arenas’ life and work and a sunset recitation of his words by local poet Legna Rodriguez Iglesias.
It s about time, Grace tells
New Times with a laugh, as Merediz s eyes playfully widen at the assumption. But, even for me, this is a movie that I had wished happened while I was growing up and always watching the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.
Merediz interjects, joking that she s still growing up, before Grace continues: I was trying to see, you know, maybe I could do that, she explains of becoming the representation she sought. I can now find somebody that looks like me in a musical movie, and it s pretty cool to be a part of that.
Leslie Grace (center) plays Nina Rosario in the film adaptation of
Sitting at Books & Books in Coral Gables on a sunny afternoon, life seems almost back to normal talking to Floridian author Kristen Arnett. With her new book,
With Teeth, releasing on June 1, and her pre-orders at the local bookstore offering personalized signed copies, the spot feels the perfect place for a conversation about how her work explores the variety of people that exist in this weird and wonderful state. When I first started writing [
With Teeth], I was still living in Orlando and thinking a lot about queer spaces, which morphed itself into thinking about the lack of queer spaces, Arnett explains. There s a ton of queer people in Central Florida and barely any gay nightclubs or bars or places to go. This moved me to think about the lack of queer parenting groups or anything like that.