Toma una copa. Escribe una historia. Toma otra copa. Escribe una historia mejor.

Instructor: J.V. Portela

La Feria del Libro de Miami presenta First Draft, una serie de eventos informales de escritura que convierten las horas felices en grandes historias.

Estás inspirado. Pero también tienes sed. Pasa por un evento de First Draft para tomar algo (el primero corre por cuenta de la casa) y una consigna de escritura guiada. Comparte tu escritura. ¡Nunca sabes qué podrías crear mientras te sirves otra ronda!

J.V. Portela (Habana, Cuba 1989) is a poet, translator, editor, activist and researcher based out of Miami, FL. He is the Editor of Revista de Jai Alai—a print limited-edition journal of poetry, fiction, essays and black-and-white drawings—the Founding Editor of Miami-based press La Pereza’s new collection of literature-in-translation, the Associate Editor of Jai-Alai Books, Programming Director of Reading Queer, and the Translator and Interpreter of the O, Miami Poetry Festival. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Conectados, SensationFeelings, y Nagari, and he is the translator of three books of poetry: Dave Landsberger’s Suicide by Jaguar (Jai-Alai Books 2014), Peter Richards’ Helsinki (Casa Vacía, forthcoming 2017), and Legna Rodriguez Iglesias’ Chicle: Ahora Es Cuando (2016), which is the first English translation ever published by renowned Cuban press Letras Cubanas. His original children’s poems about native South Florida wildlife will be permanently exhibited by the Miami Frost Museum of Science as part of its Everglades ecology exhibit and eventually published as a children’s book. He is also the recipient of a Field Research Fellowship from the Tinker Foundation, a Full Research Fellowship from the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami, and an Evidence Acquisition fellowship from Florida International University for his doctoral research on the construction of queerness in contemporary Cuban culture. He shares a tiny home, a lush garden, and an avocado tree with his lover, four disinterested cats, and some dusty piles of books.