The Miami Rail

It's not too late to register for Miami Book Fair's — attend small, intensive workshops, craft talks, and readings with award-winning writers like Min Jin Lee, . Ada Calhoun, and more. From May 9-12 in Downtown Miami - more info below:

""INTRO" harnesses darkly cynical, dystopian narratives, as antidote to our anxieties but we are left questioning, is anything real or is this life just another movie?" Nicole Doran reviews this fantastical show curated by featuring work by , , and more at CCEMiami, up at MR online now.

REVIEW: "INTRO" by Alan Gutierrez at CCE Miami REVIEW: "INTRO" by Alan Gutierrez at CCE Miami

Zaina Alsous reviews BEAST MERIDIAN, a tender new poetry collection by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal:

"While the pages of Beast Meridian open with an elegy honoring the author’s late grandmother, death serves as an aperture in this collection of poems rather than an ending; a flower bed where the legacies of women who survived, who cross borders, who wear violence on their bodies, who grow daughters, and all of the names they carry, bloom in red: '& so we hatched myself— / this is how you said we would survive.'

Read the full review below:

https://miamirail.org/book-reviews/in-the-wildness-of-daughterhood-beast-meridian-by-vanessa-angelica-villarreal/

Warm congratulations to Justine Ludwig, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Dallas Contemporary, who has been appointed Executive Director at Creative Time! Excited to see what her vision and drive will bring to the organization. Read our interview with Ludwig on MR online below. 📷 by

https://miamirail.org/visual-arts/riding-in-cars-with-curators-justine-ludwig/