It's band night at New Work Miami 2010! Music by Beings and Jacuzzi Boys. Be sure to pick up a copy of "Lies and Poems"-a poetry journal curated by University of Wynwood and produced by artists Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza. Donation bar + light fare. $5 for MAM members. $15 for non-members.

Pick up a copy of "Lies and Poems"-a poetry journal curated by University of Wynwood and produced by artists Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza-at the second of several "After Hours" events for New Work Miami 2010. Performance by Ana Mendez, Aja Albertson and Richard Vergez. Gallery talks by Kevin Arrow and Manny Prieres. Content by Talking Head Transmitters. For the stomach, there's a donation bar + light fare. $5 for MAM members. $15 for non-members.

Pick up a copy of "Lies and Poems"-a poetry journal curated by University of Wynwood and produced by artists Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza-at the first of several "After Hours" events for New Work Miami 2010. Gean and Ernesto will be doing a gallery talk about their contribution to the exhibit; besides creating "Lies and Poems" and the exhibition guide, they also transformed the museum's educational room. Also on the bill are the always-excellent Talking Head Transmitters doing a live radio segment on "The Big Spill;" interactive events led by Felecia Chizuko Carlise and Michael Genovese; and a performance by Maria Jose Arjona. For the stomach, there's a donation bar + light fare. $5 for MAM members. $15 for non-members.

Join UofW for the official release of the second printing of Hialeah Haikus, a collection of the Japanese-style, 5-7-5 syllable structure poems, infused with an unmistakable Miami flavor.

A daring attendee will enjoy a reading of several select haikus by the authors themselves, intertwined with a Q&A session led by University of Wynwood that will have you saying, “****!” Or just “¡**!” in Español. The event is free. The book is $10. And proceeds from the book sales will benefit the non-for-profit sponsoring all this madness: Artes Miami/Editorial Ultramar.

Foryoucansee was founded by Alex Fumero, Lucas Leyva, and Marco Ramirez—three young artists with a passion for creating native work. This time they stand on the shoulders of giants, fellow authors: Eric Anderson, Ceci Fernandez, Danny Monsalve, Alex Nodarse, Elena Santayana, and local celebrity, Jose El Rey. Original photography in the book by Matthew Berkowitz.

A collective reading of local poetry, featuring a baker's half-dozen poets from the Miami Poetry Collective. Emceed by Miami's Premiere Poetic Maitre D', James May.

We have been taught since childhood not to judge books by their covers, but on this night, we will put that concept to the test, as audience members will decide the order in which the evening's poems will be read--based solely on their titles. To further spice things up, poets will not be reading their own works, instead lobbying along with the audience as to when each poem should be read, and by who.

Gregory Pardlo teaches at George Washington University. His debut collection, Totem, won the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. His poetry is formal, precise, and theatrical in its tendency to inhabit the voices of others. If his poetry were a band, it would be Pink Floyd, fronted by Andre 3000. A lifelong guitar player, Pardlo never loses the music in the words. An excerpt from "Soundtrack":

Suppose, for instance, our taste for / harmony is just a groping after patterns. Rapture of ten / million monkeys tattooing the keys of their / typewriters symphonically like the cast of Stomp. / Must I organize life according to an alphabet / of clicks and grunts? What use is an anniversary? / What makes the sentence a complete thought and why / would anyone want one?

Ed Skoog's poetry is formal, too, but if Pardlo's wearing a white tuxedo, Skoog's in a three-piecer with a tire iron hidden under the sportcoat. His debut collection, Mister Skylight, came out only last year from Copper Canyon Press, but it's almost impossible to find someone in the poetry world who doesn't know Ed personally or hasn't read (and loved) his starkly-rendered portraits of regular people caught up in this world's ongoing disaster. As he says in the poem "Recent Changes at Cantor's Deli":

I’m the dredge flopping for tar from the pits. / Click. I am a kind of David Bowie / in the Amoeba Records everything’s-a-dollar bin.

Pardlo and Skoog will read poems and then participate in a brief Q&A about their work.

Ed Skoog will lead a three-day intensive poetry workshop. Invitation only, via signing up for Lady Python Nation. Further description will come through University of Wynwood alumni email.

Presented in conjunction with The Betsy-South Beach, as part of their continuing commitment to American poetry. Read more about The Betsy's poetic lineage here.

Zachary Schomburg will present an invitation-only craft talk as part of the University of Wynwood's Visiting Poet Series. Schomburg is the author of two collections of poetry, The Man Suit (Black Ocean, 2007) and Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean, 2009), as well as serving as co-editor of Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books, both of which he co-founded. This event will only be offered to University of Wynwood Friends and is first-come, first-serve. To sign up, fill out the form under Invitations.

Zachary Schomburg will present a reading as part of the University of Wynwood's Visiting Poet Series. Schomburg is the author of two collections of poetry, The Man Suit (Black Ocean, 2007) and Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean, 2009), as well as serving as co-editor of Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books, both of which he co-founded.

David Gewanter will give a public reading in Miami as part of University of Wynwood's Visiting Poet Series. Gewanter's most recent collection is War Bird (Chicago, 2009). His previous collections include Sleep of Reason (Chicago, 2003) and In the Belly (Chicago, 1997). He was also co-editor, along with Frank Birdart, of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems (FSG, 2007). Gewanter currently teaches at Georgetown University.

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 their manual typewriters.

Poet Frank Giampietro visits Miami as part of the University of Wynwood's Visiting Poet Series, funded by the John and James L. Knight Foundation. He will read poems from his debut collection Begin Anywhere at Bardot Miami, Saturday, January 30, beginning at 8 p.m. Parking is available behind the building. The entrance is also around back, underneath a red awning.

The Miami Poetry Collective. will perform a special edition of the Poem Depot at Lucky You!2, an art raffle event at the Bakehouse Art Complex. As usual, MPC members will be writing poems on commission, but we'll also be writing poems about the more than 60 original artworks that will be on sale. Expect other surprises as well.

Presented in conjunction with the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, P. Scott Cunningham will lead a workshop on the traditional form of the haiku. No experience necessary. Space is limited.

No class until the Spring 2010 semester.

After a long day browsing and purchasing art, come by Bardot Miami for drinks and poems. Bardot's expert bartenders are making the cocktails, and the Miami Poetry Collective's writing the poems: you choose the topic, then relax on one of Bardot's couches, play pool, or eat some tapas at the bar while one of our poets bangs it out on a manual typewriter.

The Miami Poetry Collective will mount a Poem Depot in the Locust Projects courtyard. MPC t-shirts will be available for purchase.

Workshop Workshop, a factory and salon created by artist Jim Drain, poet P. Scott Cunningham, and sculptor Graham Hudson, produces zines that respond to Design Miami itself—its participants, objects, conversations, histories, narratives, suggestions and shapes. Even the detritus of the tent’s construction has been put to use by Hudson, who is in the act of constructing the space using leftover lumber, rubber, plastic, furniture—anything the fair and the city (the larger fair) has cast off. In Workshop Workshop, physical and metaphysical byproducts are recycled and put to use, creating an environment, a process, and a series of work that represents the heightened interplay that occurs in Miami each December, and creates a locus for collaboration.

Drain, Cunningham and Hudson will draw from a rotating—and ever-expanding—crew of local and international artists, designers and writers, in order to produce as many zines as it can during the length of fair, with as diverse a range of content as possible.

The Michael Bay Film and Chaos Studies Department at the University of Wynwood, in conjunction with the Borscht Film Festival, Presents: "Two Panel Discussions That Will Detonate A Truck Full of Suitcases Full of Grenades in Your Brain", graciously hosted by Gallery Diet. Free to the public. Terrible wine will be served to those 21+.

Panel One: An Intimate Conversation with the University of Wynwood Lady Pythons Jai-Alai Team, moderated by sportswriter Matt Gajewski, in which the truth behind the team's triumphs, failures, and scandals are at last revealed in full. Kleenex will be provided. Running time: 25 minutes.

Brief Intermission

Panel Two: The Greatest American Director in the History of America, and Possibly God-Almighty Incarnate: An Unbiased Examination of the Groundbreaking Cinematic Career of Michael Bay, Benevolent Overlord of American Cinema. Panel members include: Former NY Mets First Baseman Keith Hernandez*, Lucas Leyva's Twelve-Year Old Cousin, Poet Dave Landsberger, and Film Historian Andrew Hevia. Running time: 30 minutes.

*The part of "Keith Hernandez" will be played by a mustache.

Enter the Knight Arts' inaugural haiku competition, co-hosted by UW. First prize is $500; second prize is $250; and five honorable mentions will receive $100. For rules, themes, etc., please visit knightarts.org. Deadline to submit is November 21.

In a non-violent coup likely to be remembered as the "November Revolution", the Miami Poetry Collective takes over the Miami Book Fair. Come visit us at our booth during the Fri-Sun street fair, and come to our roman-a-fleuve reading on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in Pavilion C. Presented in conjunction with the Palm Beach Poetry Festival & Gulf Stream Magazine. Special thanks to Lissette Mendez and the rest of the Book Fair staff for graciously hosting our coup.

Columbia University Professor Sadia Shepard, producer of The September Issue, the Sundance Award-winning documentary about the making of Vogue Magazine, speaks off the cuff with P. Scott Cunningham, reads from her book The Girl From Foreign (2008, Penguin Press), and shows clips from her films.

The Miami Poetry Collective performs at FIU's Wolfsonian Museum as part of the city of Miami Beach's Sleepless Night celebration. Come buy a poem or a t-shirt and support the Cent Journal Series.

Performances by the Jacuzzi Boys, Electric Bunnies, Feathers, Justin & Meatball, and the debut of Poetry Vs. Glen Rice.

The Miami Poetry Collective performs Poem Depot alongside 18 other artists/collectives inside the world-renowned Margulies Collection as part of a fundraiser for the Sundari Foundation and Lotus House Women's Shelter. Tickets may be purchased by going to the Lotus House website or by calling 305-365-2478.

University of Wynwood Visiting Poet Melanie Almeder reads from her book On Dream Street in celebration of the opening of There Goes the Neighborhood, an exhibition of work by Miami artists Tom Virgin, Brian Reedy, Mary Malm, and Claudia Scalise.

Co-sponsored by the Miami-Dade Public Library, the University of Wynwood is hosting poet Dr. Melanie Almeder, professor at Roanoke College in Virginia. She'll be directing a workshop with very limited seating. Register now by emailing art@mdpls.org or calling 305-375-5048.

Give them a topic or a theme and the Miami Poetry Collective will write you an original poem on a manual typewriter, for a nominal, pre-arranged fee. Copies of the Four Cent Journal, published by University of Wynwood Press, will also be available.

Come celebrate the beginning of Tigertail Productions' 30th season of programming, featuring a special appearance by the Miami Poetry Collective's Poem Depot, spoken word by Tigertail's Wordspeak Team, music by Boise Bob and His Backyard Band and video by Clifton Childree. Admission and drinks are free.

Give them a topic or a theme and the Miami Poetry Collective will write you an original poem on a manual typewriter, for a nominal, pre-arranged fee. Copies of the Four Cent Journal, published by University of Wynwood Press, will also be available.

A preview performance of Miller & Shellabarger’s "Untitled (Pink Tube)" alongside Professor Ana M. Luszczynska Ph.D. & P. Scott Cunningham in an open discussion of Jacques Derrida’s Rams: Uninterrupted Dialogue - Between Two Infinities, the Poem.