Guests are invited to Sunday Brunch at IPC ArtSpace in Little Haiti. Come for the words, the sounds, the images and the connection.

IPC ArtSpace 225 NE 59 Street Miami FL 33137

Against the backdrop of Marice Cohn Band’s Children of the Revolution we will hear from poet and professor January Gill O’Neil, who joins us as a Betsy Writer-in-Residence as part of our Bridge programming from Miami Beach to Little Haiti. January Gill O’Neil will highlight themes of place, memory, and witness, drawing from Glitter Road and newer work that engages history, community, and the ways personal and public narratives intersect. With all of this on menu, the event will be joined by jazz artists playing tunes to round out the day. About January Gill O'Neil January Gill O’Neil is a professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. Glitter Road received the 2024 Poetry by the Sea Best Book Award and the Julia Ward Howe Prize and was a finalist for several honors, including the Massachusetts Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, and American Poetry Review.

A Cave Canem fellow, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival from 2012 to 2018 and was the 2019–2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is a former chair of the AWP Board of Directors and its longest-serving current board member, and she teaches graduate poetry writing in the summer program at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English.