Bwè yon ti bwason. Ekri yon istwa. Bwè yon lòt ti bwason. Ekri yon pi bon istwa.

Instructor: J.V. Portela

Fwa Liv Miami prezante First Draft, yon seri evènman ekriti enfòmèl ki transfòme happy hours an bèl istwa.

Ou enspire. Men ou swaf tou. Pase nan yon evènman First Draft pou yon bwason (premye a gratis) ak yon pwompt ekriti gide. Pataje sa ou ekri. Ou pa janm konnen sa ou ka ekri pandan w ap bwè!

J.V. Portela (Habana, Cuba 1989) is a poet, translator, editor, activist and researcher based out of Miami, FL. He is the Editor of Jai-Alai Magazine—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 Conexos, SensationFeelings, ak 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.