Miami Book Fair’s own inaugural Emerging Writer Fellow in Poetry Gabriyèl Ramirez (2021) returns to the Magic City with his debut poetry collection, If Pit Bulls Had a God, It’d Be a Pit Bull, which examines how violent prejudices can be met with and redirected by a holy tenderness. After two years of artistic silence, Bluff se DANEZ SMITH’s powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility as a poet in the wake of the pandemic and protest following the murder of George Floyd in their hometown of the Twin Cities. Moderated by author JOSEPH EARL THOMAS.

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