SWWIM + The Betsy-South Beach + FIU Miami Beach Urban Studios + Miami Dade County’s Department of Cultural Affairs present a virtual poetry salon featuring Naoko Fujimoto + Freesia McKee. The reading will be broadcast via Facebook Live and Zoom. Visit The Betsy Hotel on Facebook or RSVP for the Zoom link. The event will be closed captioned.
Naoko Fujimoto was born, raised in Nagoya, Japan, and author of Where I Was Born, winner of the editor's choice by Willow Books (2019) and Glyph:Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory by Tupelo Press (2020). Her chapbooks, Mother Said, I Want Your Pain, winner of the Shared Dream Immigrant Contest by Backbone Press (2018), Silver Seasons of Heartache (2017) by Glass Lyre Press, Home, No Home (2016), winner of the annual Oro Fino Chapbook Competition by Educe Press, are also available from each press. Her most recent publications are in POETRY, Kenyon Review, the Seattle Review, Diode Poetry Journal, and PANK. She is a RHINO Poetry associate editor. More details, please visit https://www.naokofujimoto.com/
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Freesia McKee is author of the chapbook How Distant the City (Headmistress Press, 2018). Her words have appeared in cream city review, The Feminist Wire, Painted Bride Quarterly, CALYX, Gertrude, So to Speak, Nimrod International Journal, Bone Bouquet, Flyway, and the Ms. Magazine Blog. Freesia's poetry is forthcoming in The Hollins Critic, The Antigonish Review, and The Grabbed Anthology. Her book reviews have appeared in South Florida Poetry Journal, Gulf Stream, and The Drunken Odyssey. Freesia was the winner of CutBank Literary Journal’s 2018 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry, chosen by Sarah Vap.
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