https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/i-am-trying-to-love-the-whole-world monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/aa084051-6c5c-488b-bf78-90eec0d44c39/I+Am+Trying+to+Love+the+Whole+World+By+Jenny+Browne.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - I Am Trying to Love the Whole World - Jenny Browne Jenny Browne is the author of four collections: Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems (2019), Dear Stranger (2014), The Second Reason (2007), and At Once (2003). She earned her MFA from the James Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin. She served concurrent terms as City of San Antonio Poet Laureate (2016-18) and Poet Laureate of the State of Texas (2018) and in 2020 was Distinguished Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America. Browne teaches at Trinity University in San Antonio https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/the-caribbean-by-nicolsas-guillen-gep5f monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/88313256-e18d-4ef6-9a18-bd4626103d04/Aimee-Nezhukumatathil-CREDIT-Dustin-Parsons.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - Letter to the Northern Lights - Aimee Nezhukumatathil Aimee Nezhukumatathil is known for writing poems that sit at the intersection of three cultures: Filipino, Indian, and American. She received her BA in English and MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from Ohio State University in Columbus. Nezhukumatathil is the author of five poetry collections: Night Owl (Ecco, 2026); Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press, 2018); Lucky Fish (Tupelo Press, 2011), winner of the 2011 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize; At the Drive-In Volcano (Tupelo Press, 2007), winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize; and Miracle Fruit (Tupelo Press, 2003), winner of the Global Filipino Award and the Tupelo Press Prize, as selected by Gregory Orr. She is also the author of the essay collections Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees (HarperCollins, 2024) and World of Wonders (Milkweed Editions, 2020), a New York Times bestseller and Barnes and Noble’s Book of the Year. Nezhukumatathil’s awards include the Charles Angoff Award from The Literary Review, the James Boatwright III Prize from Shenandoah, the Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Nezhukumatathil is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Mississippi and lives with her family in Oxford, Mississippi. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/the-caribbean-by-nicolsas-guillen monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/fd27bda2-02da-4e6d-a793-d751f651ebc1/R.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - THE CARIBBEAN / EL CARIBE - Nicolás Guillén Born July 10, 1902, in Camagüey, Nicolás Guillén is among Cuba’s most significant 20th-century poets, a journalist, and a champion of Afro-Cuban people and culture. He became a pioneering voice of negrismo, blending Afro-Cuban rhythms, vernacular language, and musicality with modernist and surrealist techniques. Guillén began publishing socially conscious poetry as a teenager and went on to produce landmark collections such as Motivos de son (1930), El son entero (1947), and Tengo (1964). These poems helped establish Afro-Cuban culture in Cuban literature. Throughout his career, he used his work to explore race, class, and national identity while engaging deeply with politics. He later supported the 1959 Cuban Revolution, when Fidel Castro and his revolutionary forces overthrew the Batista regime and established a socialist state. He was named National Poet of Cuba in 1961 and served as president of the National Cuban Writers' Union for over 25 years. Today, he is remembered for merging Afro-Cuban tradition and political consciousness in writing to challenge racial discrimination wherever it occurred, particularly in Cuba and the United States. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/the-pianist-tony-kitt monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/bad9ba33-a51e-4757-bd55-c180c4b57f86/Tony-Kitt-Photo-by-Sharon-Burrell+%281%29.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - The Pianist by Tony Kitt - Tony Kitt Tony Kitt is a poet from Dublin, Ireland. His family hails from the West of Ireland, as well as from Italy and Greece. He has worked as a researcher, a music critic, a literary translator, a creative writing tutor, and a magazine editor. His poetry titles include Endurable Infinity (University of Pittsburgh Press, USA, 2022), Sky Sailing (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2024), and A Quiet Life in Psychopatria (MadHat Press, USA, 2024). His chapbook called The Magic Phlute was published by SurVision Books (Ireland) in 2019 His poems appear in multiple magazines and anthologies, including Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, The North, Cyphers, The Cafe Review, Plume, Matter, The Fortnightly Review, The Honest Ulsterman, The New Ulster, Under the Radar,etc. They have also been translated into Italian, Greek, Romanian, German, Ukrainian, Albanian, and Chinese. He edited the Contemporary Tangential Surrealist Poetry anthology (SurVision Books, 2023), as well as the anthology entitled Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022), and was the winner of the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/and-then-it-was-less-bleak-because-we-said-so monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/1159fe55-4b6c-4152-a976-770fe59f4ae9/Wendy+Xu+And+Then+It+Was+Less+Bleak+Because+We+Said+So.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - And Then It Was Less Bleak Because We Said So - Wendy Xu Born in Shandong, China, poet Wendy Xu was raised in New York and Iowa. She earned a BA from the University of Iowa and MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Xu’s collection You Are Not Dead (2013) was profiled as one of the year’s best debuts by Poets & Writers Magazine. She is also the author of Phrasis (Fence, 2017), winner of the Ottoline Prize, and The Past (Wesleyan University Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2013, Boston Review, Poetry, A Public Space, BOMB, and was selected for a Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry by D.A. Powell. Xu is poetry editor for Hyperallergic, and in 2014 she was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She is a visiting assistant professor of writing in poetry and the New School and lives in Brooklyn. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/on-learning-to-dissect-fetal-pigs monthly 0.5 2026-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/83a96e30-2748-4730-aac1-aa9b9fbc46eb/6d755ab7-0fff-4ecd-a0b0-b73c5c936812_1244x902.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs - Renee Nicole Macklin Good was an English student at Old Dominion University when she won the prestigious Academy of American Poets Prize in 2020 for her poem “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.” The piece explores the intersection of science, faith, and wonder, questioning whether they can coexist.. Her work has appeared in Metrosphere and Coronado Literary Review. Good was a devoted poet, writer, wife, and mother. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/ode-to-my-socks monthly 0.5 2026-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/38f92e00-67f1-4b35-b5a7-b3c8ecb29d36/neruda-13228-portrait-medium.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - Ode to My Socks - Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and one of the most influential literary voices of the 20th century. Known for his passionate, sensory, and imaginative language, Neruda wrote about love, politics, nature, everyday objects, and the inner life with equal intensity. Neruda won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, and his work continues to inspire readers for its emotional honesty, vibrant imagery, and the way it elevates the simple details of being alive. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/mountain-dew-commercial-disguised-as-a-love-poem monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/7c68ff3d-0c3d-4a44-af04-e47f4c0c98e5/Olzmann%2BPhoto_by_Margarita_Corporan%2Bcopy.webp INVOCATION POEMS - Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem - Matthew Olzmann's Matthew Olzmann is a poet, author, and essayist from Detroit, Michigan. He currently teaches at Dartmouth College and the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. Olzmann has received fellowships from the Kresge Arts Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. His latest book, Constellation Route, was published by Alice James Books in January 2022. He is also the poetry editor of the Collagist and has been a Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow at Warren Wilson College. Olzmann's writing is known for its accessible and conversational style, as well as its humor. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/when-it-comes-down-to-it monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/352e19ab-5d16-4a0b-ae91-7224a603dbc1/87ba0a-20210907-ada-limon-bio-image-2000.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - When It Comes Down To It - Ada Limón Ada Limón became the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States in July of 2022. Limón earned an MFA from New York University and is the recipient of fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including the New Yorker, Harvard Review, Pleiades, and Barrow Street. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/light-by-gospel-chinedu monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/649a21fe-0a68-4d83-924e-797d21c6b980/chinedu.gospel.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - Light by Gospel Chinedu - Gospel Chinedu Gospel Chinedu (Frontier IV) is a Nigerian poet, an undergraduate at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, and a member of the Frontiers Collective (a poetry family). He tweets @gonspoetry and enjoys playing chess when he’s neither writing nor reading poetry. Poem sourced from OnlyPoems. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/girl-soup-6ery9 monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/1759964936659-IOWQU7I98NZ0VWFPW4YX/Joy-Harjo-Photo-by-Karen-Kuehn.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet - Joy Harjo Joy Harjo was appointed the new United States poet laureate in 2019. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951, Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She is the author of several books of poetry, including An American Sunrise, which is forthcoming from W. W. Norton in 2019, and Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015). She is a current Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/girl-soup monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/9ab0400e-00f2-4ae2-8869-94da3bb6ac71/01_0538-small-731x1024.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - Girl Soup - Sawako Nakayasu Born in Yokohama, Japan, poet and translator who moved to the U.S. at age six and earned an MFA from Brown University. Her work slips between genres and languages, often experimenting with “unfaithful” translations as a way of reimagining truth in poetry. She is the author of several collections, including Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From (2020), The Ants (2014), and So We Have Been Given Time Or (2004), winner of the Verse Prize. Her hybrid book Mouth: Eats Color (2011) was the first title from Rogue Factorial, the press she founded. As a translator, Nakayasu has brought Japanese writers such as Tatsumi Hijikata, Sagawa Chika, Kawata Ayane, and Takashi Hiraide into English, earning a PEN Translation Fund Award. Her own poetry has been translated into multiple languages. Nakayasu has received an NEA fellowship and divides her time between the U.S. and Japan. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/the-gift monthly 0.5 2025-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/fc7f1c69-f85d-487a-bf19-3bc2b428a7cc/Lee-Li-Young-1-600x600.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - The Gift - Li-Young Lee (he/him) is an acclaimed poet and author of collections including The Invention of the Darling (2024), The Undressing (2018), and Behind My Eyes (2009). He has received the 2024 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, multiple Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. Lee’s poetry often explores memory, family, spirituality, and gratitude, blending personal experience with elemental and natural imagery. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents, Lee’s family immigrated to the United States in 1964. He studied with Gerald Stern at the University of Pittsburgh and has taught at universities including Northwestern and Iowa. He lives in Chicago. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/lines-breaking monthly 0.5 2025-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/73c53368-eb1b-425d-b5d4-5fe7f7a3dbfb/Jose-B-Gonzalez.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - Lines Breaking - José B. González José was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, and emigrated to the United States at the age of eight. He received a BS from Bryant University, an MA from Brown University, and a PhD from the University of Rhode Island. González is the author of When Love Was Reels (Arte Público Press, 2017) and Toys Made of Rock (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2015). The recipient of a 2012 Fulbright Scholarship, he teaches at the United States Coast Guard Academy and lives in Quaker Hill, Connecticut. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/wind-in-a-box monthly 0.5 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/5b5927aa-24be-4a22-bed9-8c4191db54e2/Photo-by-Becky-Thurner-Braddock-1024x685.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - Wind in a Box - Terrance Hayes born in Columbia, South Carolina, earned his BA from Coker College and MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. His poetry explores race, masculinity, music, and pop culture, often using inventive forms. In a 2013 interview, he described striving for language that communicates emotion like music does—purely and powerfully. Hayes is the author of several acclaimed collections, including So to Speak (2023), American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (2018), and Lighthead (2010), which won the National Book Award. His work frequently appears in Best American Poetry and has earned Pushcart Prizes. He also wrote two books of criticism: Watch Your Language (2023), a finalist for the Pegasus Award, and To Float in the Space Between (2018), which won that award. Hayes has received a MacArthur Fellowship and taught at several universities. He currently teaches creative writing at NYU. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/is-it-a-burden monthly 0.5 2025-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/e382a78d-636d-4bdf-8da4-dd6560c4d4c0/Dorothea_Lasky_portraits_20_SQU.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - Is It A Burden - Dorothea Lasky Lasky was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned a BA from Washington University, an MFA at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a Masters in Arts Education from Harvard University, and a doctorate in Creativity and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Lasky was awarded a Bagley Wright Fellowship in 2013, and currently, she is an associate professor of poetry at Columbia University, where she directs the poetry program. Lasky’s poems have appeared in a number of publications, including the New Yorker, Paris Review, and American Poetry Review. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/we-play-charades monthly 0.5 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/42c70f28-9de4-45db-a2b4-b2965f2fcc4a/SPIA-Headshot.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - We Play Charades - Uma Menon Uma Menon is a writer from Winter Park, Florida. She is the author of Hands for Language (Mawenzi House, 2020) and My Mother's Tongues (Candlewick Press, 2023) and Our Mothers’ Names (Candlewick Press, 2025. Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, The Progressive, The Massachusetts Review, and other publications. Menon was the 2019–2020 Youth Fellow for the International Human Rights Art Festival and a 2020–2021 Encore Public Voices Fellow. She currently studies at Yale Law School and has an A.B. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/the-fish monthly 0.5 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/ed46b1b2-e36e-45d5-912c-a030f47831b7/bishop_elizabeth_WD-1.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - The Fish - Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet known for her precise, vivid imagery and subtle reflections on the physical world. Born in Massachusetts, she faced early family hardships and traveled widely, living for many years in Brazil. Influenced by Marianne Moore, Bishop’s poetry avoids confessional style, focusing instead on careful observations of nature and place. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956 and the National Book Award in 1970. Later in life, she taught at Harvard and became recognized as a major figure in contemporary poetry. Bishop passed away in Boston in 1979. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/if-feeling-isnt-in-it monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/c65edac8-f4be-46e2-8814-361d43396cdc/john-brehm-2023.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - If Feeling Isn't In It - John Brehm Was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska and educated at the University of Nebraska and Cornell University. He is the author of four books of poetry, Sea of Faith, Help Is on the Way, No Day at the Beach, and Dharma Talk. His collection of essays, The Dharma of Poetry, was published by Wisdom Publications and is a companion to his acclaimed anthology, The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy, also from Wisdom Publications. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, Plume, Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, The Writer’s Almanac, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Best American Poetry, The Norton Introduction to Literature, and many other journals and anthologies. John offers a monthly Poetry as Spiritual Practice gathering and with his wife and leads mindfulness retreats that incorporate Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, guided meditations, and mindful poetry discussions. He lives in Portland, Oregon. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/the-city monthly 0.5 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/d67925b0-e66a-4000-a652-5ed2207a02f9/cp-cavafy.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - The City - C.P. Cavafy (1863–1933) is widely regarded as the most important Greek poet of the 20th century. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, to Greek parents, he spent formative years in England before returning to Alexandria, where he spent most of his life working as a government clerk. Cavafy’s poetry blends personal reflection, historical imagination, and candid explorations of queer desire. Though he published little during his lifetime, he circulated poems privately among friends. His distinctive style—direct, understated, and emotionally nuanced—often dealt with ancient Greek and Roman history, modern anxieties, and fleeting sensual encounters. E.M. Forster and W.H. Auden championed his work posthumously, noting his unique voice and unflinching honesty. Cavafy’s best-known poems, such as “Waiting for the Barbarians” and “Ithaca”, reveal a poet deeply concerned with the nature of power, beauty, memory, and impermanence. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/small-kindnesses monthly 0.5 2025-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/4c075f31-a02a-4603-a2b1-7e2e9850e0c2/unnamed.png INVOCATION POEMS - Small Kindnesses - Danusha Laméris is a poet, teacher, and essayist. She is the author of The Moons of August, which was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award, and Bonfire Opera, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and winner of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. The 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, she is a Poet Laureate emeritus of Santa Cruz County, California, and co-leads the Poetry of Resilience webinars and the HearthFire Writing Community with James Crews. She is on the faculty of Pacific University's low-residency MFA program. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/the-bean-eaters monthly 0.5 2025-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/b6f9cccc-e6fa-4b2e-8cb7-74bfc1c71aef/4be0ee2a8d9cbcfd8b1d105dba9c03c392fb37e9.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - The Bean Eaters - Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an influential American poet, author, and teacher, recognized as the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for her 1949 collection, Annie Allen. Her poetry often explored the lives and struggles of ordinary people in her community, blending Modernist techniques with Black idioms. Brooks published over 20 books, including notable works like A Street in Bronzeville (1945) and The Bean Eaters (1960). She was also the first Black woman to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/the-layers monthly 0.5 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/119a4a93-cf6a-4394-94ab-836452e2a245/d96ef7dd3e018aeb80136415c397007cf4f9e983.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - The Layers - Stanley Kunitz Stanley Kunitz became the tenth Poet Laureate of the United States in the autumn of 2000. Kunitz was ninety-five years old at the time, still actively publishing and promoting poetry to new generations of readers. Having published books throughout the greater part of the twentieth century, Kunitz exerted a subtle but steady influence on such major poets as Theodore Roethke, W. H. Auden, and Robert Lowell. Through his teaching he provided encouragement to hundreds of younger poets as well. Kunitz's early poetry collections, Intellectual Things and Passport to the War: A Selection of Poems, earned him a reputation as an intellectual poet. Although Kunitz's style changed over his seven decades as a poet, his methods did not. A notebook and a pen render a sketch; many late nights over a manual typewriter result in a finished poem. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/my-god-its-full-of-stars monthly 0.5 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/1b791c0e-69da-49ce-8121-3f50a4bc843e/TRACY+K+SMITH.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - My God, It’s Full of Stars - Tracy K. Smith Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, memoirist, editor, translator and librettist. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017-19, during which time she spearheaded American Conversations: Celebrating Poetry in Rural Communities with the Library of Congress, created the American Public Media podcast The Slowdown, and edited the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time. Smith is the author of five poetry collections: Such Color: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2022 New England Book Award. She is a Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/heart-to-heart monthly 0.5 2025-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/0232ed36-c70b-4bd1-a7d7-ae3342acd8a7/Rita+Dove.png INVOCATION POEMS - Heart to Heart - Rita Dove is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author, and former U.S. Poet Laureate (1993–1995). Her acclaimed works span poetry, fiction, drama, and essays, including Thomas and Beulah, Collected Poems 1974–2004, and Playlist for the Apocalypse. Dove has received the National Humanities Medal, the National Medal of Arts, and numerous literary honors, including the Wallace Stevens Award and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The only poet to receive both the National Humanities and National Arts Medals, she has been awarded 29 honorary doctorates. A professor at the University of Virginia, she continues to shape contemporary literature through her writing and scholarship. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/db0qlh93dcvstpsggmfgn21cmpe8v9 monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/e2dcd290-35fc-449d-80f0-eb545d0580d2/Ellen-Bass-by-Irene-Young.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - Ode to the First Peach - ELLEN BASS Chancellor Emerita of the Academy of American Poets, is the author of Indigo (Copper Canyon, 2020) and several acclaimed poetry collections, including Like a Beggar and Mules of Love, which won the Lambda Literary Award. She co-edited No More Masks! (1973), the first major anthology of women’s poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and numerous literary journals. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and NEA, she has won multiple awards, including four Pushcart Prizes. Bass also authored influential nonfiction books on trauma and healing, including The Courage to Heal, and leads poetry workshops in prisons. She teaches in Pacific University’s low-residency MFA program. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/nice-voice monthly 0.5 2025-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/9b15638d-d70b-493a-b94c-2f87fa21806f/SH15094-UVC-21H-IV-RGB-1024x1024.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - Nice Voice - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner is a Marshallese poet and the author of Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (University of Arizona Press, 2017). Based in Majuro, she explores her culture’s rich storytelling traditions while addressing pressing issues like climate change and the legacy of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. Her work spans poetry, performance, and media, deeply informed by her community organizing efforts through Jo-Jikum, a nonprofit she co-founded and directs, dedicated to Marshallese youth and environmental advocacy. In addition to her creative and nonprofit work, she serves as Climate Envoy for the Marshall Islands Ministry of Environment and is pursuing a PhD in Pacific Studies at Australian National University. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/instructions-on-not-giving-up monthly 0.5 2025-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/aab7cc12-6c41-4855-86d6-99eb4949aee9/ADA%2BLIMON_7%2B%281%29.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - Instructions on Not Giving Up - Ada Limón Born March 28, 1976, in Sonoma, California, was influenced by the visual arts, particularly by her mother, Stacia Brady. She earned an MFA in creative writing from New York University in 2001. Limón’s first collection, Lucky Wreck (2006), won the Autumn House Poetry Prize. Other works include The Hurting Kind (2022), The Carrying (2018), Bright Dead Things (2015), Sharks in the Rivers (2010), and This Big Fake World (2006). She also edited You are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (2024). Limón is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, MacArthur Fellow, and recipient of the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. She became U.S. poet laureate in 2022 and was reappointed for a second term in 2023. Limón splits her time between Lexington, Kentucky, and Sonoma, California. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/a-journey monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/babb4d10-2d00-4c19-94d9-3fb1ef06e0e6/nikki-giovanni-posed.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - A Journey - Nikki Giovanni, born Yolanda Cornelia Giovanni in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943, was a celebrated poet, author, and educator. Raised in Woodlawn, Ohio, she earned her BA in history from Fisk University in 1967, where she revived the campus chapter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Giovanni later pursued graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Her early poetry, influenced by the Black Arts Movement, included Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968), Black Judgment (1969), and Re: Creation (1970), featuring iconic works like “Nikki-Rosa” and “Ego-Tripping.” In 1970, she published one of the first anthologies of Black women’s poetry, Night Comes Softly. Over her career, Giovanni authored numerous poetry collections and 11 illustrated children’s books, including A Library (2022) and A Good Cry (2017). Giovanni received many accolades, including seven NAACP Image Awards, the Langston Hughes Award, and over 30 honorary degrees. She taught at Rutgers University and, from 1987 to 2022, at Virginia Tech, where she was named a University Distinguished Professor in 1999. A cultural icon, Giovanni passed away on December 9, 2024, in Virginia. Her final poetry collection, The Last Book, is set for publication in 2025. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/an-echo-of-ocean monthly 0.5 2024-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/06ab0d37-af71-4fa9-883a-1fe85d33c253/Doireann-Ni%CC%81-Ghri%CC%81ofa-by-Al-Higgins-sm-1.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - An Echo of Ocean - Doireann Ní Ghríofa Doireann’s poems have appeared in many literary journals in Ireland and internationally, most recently in France, Mexico, USA, Scotland, and England. The Arts Council of Ireland has twice awarded her a literature bursary (2011 and 2013). She was a winner of the Wigtown Gaelic poetry contest, the Scottish National Poetry Prize in 2012, shortlisted for the Jonathan Swift Award, and Comórtas Uí Néill both in 2011 and 2012. She was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. Doireann’s Irish collections Résheoid and Dúlasair are both published by Coiscéim. Her pamphlet of English poems, Ouroboros, has recently been selected for the longlist of The Venture Award (UK). https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/advice-to-myself monthly 0.5 2024-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/824767e6-239c-4a35-a01c-fc307df69247/Screenshot+2024-11-13+at+6.53.44%E2%80%AFPM.png INVOCATION POEMS - Advice to Myself - Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich, born in 1954, is a Native American author known for exploring themes of identity, family, and cultural conflict. She is the author of dozens of novels, children’s books, and poetry collections, earning a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and two National Book Critics Circle Awards along the way. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa (Ojibwe), she also owns Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/c431qykpfxiva0syubteurj8bkg5hi monthly 0.5 2024-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/0844eda8-6ec6-492b-b449-f0ff833b10ab/90a86db3b5ed6a31da11cc0cefd401ce2f30dd93.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - Perhaps the World Ends Here - Joy Harjo Joy Harjo, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, is a critically acclaimed poet, musician, and educator. She earned a BA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Harjo's work draws on First Nation storytelling, feminist, and social justice traditions, often incorporating indigenous myths and values. Her poetry explores landscapes, memory, and survival. In 2019, she was named U.S. Poet Laureate. Harjo’s numerous accolades include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Ruth Lilly Prize in Poetry. She has also released four albums of original music, winning a Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist in 2009. Her memoir, Crazy Brave, won the 2013 PEN Center USA prize for creative nonfiction. Harjo’s work, rich in cultural memory and myth, remains a vital force in contemporary American poetry. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/i-am-offering-this-poem monthly 0.5 2024-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/3636019b-b8dc-4ef7-b84b-e560f8c9362f/5f54fe637c45e311971eb5b2ed60fa8097a435b7.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - I Am Offering this Poem - Jimmy Santiago Baca Born in 1952 in Santa Fe of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was abandoned by his parents and at 13 ran away from the orphanage where his grandmother had placed him. He was convicted on drug charges in 1973 and spent five years in prison. There he learned to read and began writing poetry. His semiautobiographical novel in verse, Martin and Meditations on the South Valley (1987), received the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award in 1989. Baca has conducted writing workshops in prisons, libraries, and universities across the country for more than 30 years. In 2004 he launched Cedar Tree, a literary nonprofit designed to provide writing workshops, training, and outreach programs for at-risk youth, prisoners and ex-prisoners, and disadvantaged communities. Baca holds a BA in English and an honorary PhD in literature from the University of New Mexico. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/ive-been-yearning-for-a-riot monthly 0.5 2024-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/a19d803e-8fca-435f-aed8-a7de17f20c20/43bf396d3374130d5d1c6cdd18b2b89c24476a43.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - I’ve Been Yearning for a Riot - Christopher Soto Poet and activist Christopher Soto, who also uses the name Loma, is the son of El Salvadoran immigrants. He grew up in Los Angeles and earned an MFA at New York University. He is the author of Sad Girl Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016) and the chapbook How to Eat Glass (Still Life Press, 2012). Christopher Soto’s poems, reviews, interviews, and articles can be found at the Nation, the Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry magazine, American Poetry Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. His work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Thai. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/dawn-revisited monthly 0.5 2024-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/6b56fd74-94d7-4045-bc3b-87246df70939/Miami+Poetry+Club.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - Dawn Revisited - Rita Dove Rita Dove (she/her) was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. A 1970 Presidential Scholar, she attended Miami University of Ohio, Universität Tübingen in Germany, and the University of Iowa, where she earned her creative writing MFA in 1977. In 1987, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her third collection of poetry, Thomas and Beulah, and from 1993 to 1995, she served as U.S. Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress. Dove is a recipient of the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/autobiography-of-eve monthly 0.5 2024-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/05ca27ef-8d03-46f9-9585-25851bf966e6/Screenshot+2024-08-14+at+7.22.38%E2%80%AFPM.png INVOCATION POEMS - Autobiography of Eve - Ansel Elkins is the author of Blue Yodel (Yale University Press, 2015), winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, she was awarded a 2011 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Elkins was raised in Talladega County, Alabama. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/this-is-the-honey monthly 0.5 2024-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/0bce3d56-de2f-4079-a399-3374bf6e4b9f/2c826f23cbad78fc1ed5a0adf2b0fd64.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - This Is the Honey - Mahogany L. Browne Mahogany L. Browne is the executive director of Bowery Poetry, artistic director of Urban Word NYC, and poetry coordinator at St. Francis College. Browne is the author of Chlorine Sky (Crown Books for Young Readers, 2021) and Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice (Roaring Brook Press, 2020). https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/if-you-are-over-staying-wokenbsp monthly 0.5 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/add446c7-96e8-4f9d-9a53-b558cb80fe74/Poetry+club.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - If You Are Over Staying Woke  - MORGAN PARKER Morgan Parker is the author of the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (2015), There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (2017), and Magical Negro (2019), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker earned a BA from Columbia University and an MFA in Poetry from New York University. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, and creator and host of the live talk show Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel. She co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With poet Angel Nafis, she runs The Other Black Girl Collective, an internationally touring Black Feminist poetry duo. She lives in Los Angeles. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/dear-life monthly 0.5 2024-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/cb106b2a-3e5f-404b-a268-1b9e3408b0ae/2368390c7a0c8ba6722404ab5ce12c4a.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - Dear Life - Maya C. Popa Maya C. Popa is the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W.W. Norton, 2022) and American Faith (Sarabande Books, 2019). She is the poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and teaches poetry at New York University. Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/a-poem-in-which-i-try-to-express-my-glee-at-the-music-my-friend-has-given-me monthly 0.5 2024-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/9718407e-8402-4eeb-a974-730a53411332/cb21ace1b20aae20c4642a20e2cc8d38.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - A Poem in which I Try to Express My Glee at the Music My Friend Has Given Me - Ross Gay Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He earned a BA from Lafayette College, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in English from Temple University. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Cave Canem, and the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. He is an editor with the chapbook presses Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Press and is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin’. He teaches at Indiana University and in Drew University’s low-residency MFA program. Source: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ross-gay https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/you-are-gorgeous-and-im-coming monthly 0.5 2024-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/bde677b1-8ea0-4e4f-b4d4-369e965fa8f6/Screenshot+2024-05-08+at+6.10.33%E2%80%AFPM.png INVOCATION POEMS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/57139930-0d5b-45ae-af66-4c02247fc27b/poetry+in+miami.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - Frank O’Hara Frank O'Hara was a dynamic leader of the "New York School" of poets. From the beginning O'Hara's poetry was engaged with the worlds of music, dance, and painting. In that complex of associations, he devised an idea of poetic form that allowed the inclusion of many kinds of events, including everyday conversations and notes about New York advertising signs. Since his death in 1966 at age forty, the depth and richness of his achievements as a poet and art critic have been recognized by an international audience. As the painter Alex Katz remarked, "Frank's business was being an active intellectual." He was that. His articulate intelligence made new proposals for poetic form possible in American poetry. Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/miami monthly 0.5 2024-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/b3f5e9cb-1694-4aa3-bfc5-d25cb82f9a3e/8f81a563035891081e4d07685aaac93a.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - Miami - Ted Greenwald Born in Brooklyn, New York, Ted Greenwald earned a BA from Queens College, CUNY. He has authored more than 25 books of poetry, including Lapstrake (1965); Blink (1972); The Life (1975); You Bet! (1978); Common Sense (1979, 2016); Word of Mouth (1986); Looks Like I’m Walking (1991); You Go Through (1992); Something, She’s Dead (1999); and The Up and Up (2004). The Age of Reasons (2016), a collection of his ‘uncollected poems from 1969 to 1982’, surprises the reader with his engaging language driven by the New York School and style of Language poets. In 1978, Greenwald, with Charles Bernstein, cofounded the Ear Inn Reading Series, which featured the poets John Ashbery and Michael Lally in its first reading. The reading series became a venue for developing and promoting the Language poetry movement, with which Greenwald’s writing is associated. Greenwald has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, the Kulcher Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He lived in New York City until his death in 2016. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/ee monthly 0.5 2024-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/776260da-e04d-4a34-a9e9-d4b3d8cc765f/Miami+poetry+club INVOCATION POEMS - to the notebook kid - Eve L. Ewing Eve Ewing is a poet and sociologist of education. She earned a BA from the University of Chicago, an MAT from Dominican University, and an MEd and PhD from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Her first collection of poetry, essays, and visual art, Electric Arches, was published by Haymarket Books in fall 2017. For ten years, Ewing has been an educator in both traditional and community-based settings, including Chicago Public Schools, After School Matters, Harvard University, and Wellesley College. She is an editor and staff writer for the website Seven Scribes. She also co-directs Crescendo Literary, a partnership that develops community-engaged arts events and educational resources. Eve is also one-half of the writing collective Echo Hotel, with Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/june-8-the-smiley-barista-remembers-my-name monthly 0.5 2024-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/577b4659-e700-4038-979e-faadd4578011/5d45d829905fd7c951f9d7c244436b86.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - june 8, the smiley barista remembers my name - Woo Chan Born in Macau, Fujianese poet Wo Chan earned a BA at the University of Virginia, where they received a Rachel St. Paul Poetry Award. In their poems, Chan often moves in several directions at once, engaging memory, identity, and the body. “Wo challenges binaries, questions the conceit of ‘normal,’ and examines the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, race, and otherness,” observes Emily Yoon in a 2015 statement on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. Chan is the recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, Poets House, the Lambda Literary Foundation, Poets & Writers, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. They served as a program assistant for Poets & Writers and a communications assistant for Kundiman. They live in Brooklyn and are a member of the Brooklyn-based drag alliance Switch n’ Play. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/while-i-wash-my-face-i-ask-impossible-questions-of-myself-and-those-who-love-me monthly 0.5 2024-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/a5c50885-bb2d-474a-a380-85ff3ea756b2/poetry+near+me.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - While I Wash My Face I Ask Impossible Questions of Myself and Those Who Love Me - Charif Shanahan Charif Shanahan is the author of two poetry collections: Trace Evidence (Tin House, 2023) and Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry/Southern Illinois University Press, 2017), a finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. He earned a BA from Princeton University, an MA from Dartmouth College, and an MFA from New York University. Currently, he is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Northwestern University, where he teaches poetry in the undergraduate and Litowitz MFA+MA graduate creative writing programs. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/81d3j9iq4jy4pwq84tmc9y29s6pyym monthly 0.5 2024-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/f8442998-f535-457f-b7bf-bc2a3fb7d3cc/ea2139d270b93a0676bda77bd048c073.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - Rhapsody in Plain Yellow - Marilyn Chin Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Portland, Oregon. She earned a BA in Chinese literature from the University of Massachusetts and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. A noted anthologist, translator, and educator, as well as a poet and novelist, Chin’s work distills her experiences as a feminist and Asian American woman. Her poetry is noted for its direct and often confrontational attitude. Chin codirected the MFA program at San Diego State University, where she is professor emerita in the departments of English and Comparative Literature. She has read and taught workshops all over the world, and she has recently been guest poet at universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Manchester, Sydney, Berlin, and elsewhere. In 2018 Chin was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/a-hrefhttpswwwmiamipoetrycluborginvocationsvompw7yn689zz4qdzwgak5voruxts2in-the-chemo-rooma monthly 0.5 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/2c0db13c-0a0f-43ca-8197-d270f139eea9/Andrea+Gibson.png INVOCATION POEMS - In the chemo room… - Andrea Gibson “After being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, I saw our world as if it were a new planet. Confronting my mortality was the seed that grew into a newfound gratitude for life. Even when I lost my eyelashes to chemotherapy I wrote, ‘That’s four hundred wishes I wouldn’t have made otherwise.’ But because I did not want to lose my fingernails too, I’d religiously ice my hands for hours during treatment—unless a poem begged me to type it. ‘Is that line worth losing a nail over?’ my partner would ask. Almost always, I’d smile and say, ‘Yes.’” https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/invocation-poet-shel-silverstein monthly 0.5 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/929c2c5a-76aa-45ee-ac4a-1e43a7efa67c/masks+sel+silverstein.png INVOCATION POEMS - Masks - Masks By Shel Silverstein She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through. Then passed right by– And never knew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/8e06bc1f-3610-4230-98b7-c2c2125aa292/Shel-Silverstein.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - Masks - Shel Silverstein “If there is a book you want to read but isn’t written yet, write it.” https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/blog-post-title-three-t859s monthly 0.5 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/152cc611-12ed-4449-9925-fae05119a97a/Nikki+Giovanni.png INVOCATION POEMS - Nikki-Rosa - Nikki Giovanni “I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.” https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/invocation-poet-richard-blanco monthly 0.5 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/a69df1b8-dee7-4ad8-9967-32feb3863ce8/Richard+Blanco.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - America - Richard Blanco “Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems for the inauguration, I started asking deeper questions about my cultural identity, and my connection to America.” https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/invocation-poet-andre-breton monthly 0.5 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/3a339b14-3c04-4aac-9746-7bd5128157d8/Andre+Breton.jpg INVOCATION POEMS - Freedom Of Love - André Breton “I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.” ― Manifestoes of Surrealism https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/invocation-poet-tarfia-faizullah monthly 0.5 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/1825b36c-00cc-4766-a4f6-de91c9019633/Tarfia+Faizullah.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - That One Time I Stayed Up All Night Making Excuses to Talk to Danger - Tarfia Faizullah “I am chosen, I prayed, I was born. I took a right, a left, and another left. I'm sometimes late, but I do love to run a palm all alone around the shining altar. I still believe I could be, like y'all said, anything I wanted.” ― Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/invocations/invocation-poet-elizabeth-bishop monthly 0.5 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/736fcb4d-a8b1-4535-b458-2feed3a1ab60/elizabethbishop.jpeg INVOCATION POEMS - Letter to N.Y. - Elizabeth Bishop “The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seemed filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster” ― The Complete Poems 1927-1979 https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/events daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/9f92b7c6-023e-4122-b729-d86a0a71fdd8/DSC00039.JPG https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/events/february-writers-lab-4x6xe-l9nw7-aa52p-jjr24 monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/5e68f7ea-1907-41ac-898a-e6283b78ef43/MARCH+2026+WRITERS+LAB.png EVENTS - MARCH 25th 2026 - WRITER’S LAB - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/events/february-writers-lab-4x6xe-l9nw7-aa52p-2mflk monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/f07d08e6-2a00-4d4d-a48f-bf25fded4c3b/2026_MARCH+P%26P+event+Flyer.png EVENTS - MARCH 16th 2026 - PALMS AND POETRY - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/events/february-writers-lab-4x6xe monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652c3bcaa3a0813441c00ab7/5b85917d-b45a-446b-9175-06319e2c1563/2026+-+MARCH+GENERATIVE.png EVENTS - MARCH 11th 2026 - GENERATIVE WORKSHOP - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.miamipoetryclub.org/events/february-writers-lab monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 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