Virtual Programming
“A Conversation With” Series

A Conversation with Richard Blanco discussing his book “Homeland of My Body: New & Selected Poems”
Tuesday December 19 | 6:30 pm
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About Richard Blanco
Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. In
2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the
National Endowment for the Humanities. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in
Miami in a working-class family, Blanco’s personal negotiation of cultural identity and the
universal themes of place and belonging characterize Blanco’s many collections of poetry,
including his most recent, Homeland of My Body, which reassess traditional notions of home as
strictly a geographical, tangible place that merely exist outside us, but rather, within us. He has
also authored the memoirs FOR ALL OF US, ONE TODAY: AN INAUGURAL POET’S JOURNEY and
THE PRINCE OF LOS COCUYOS: A MIAMI CHILDHOOD. Blanco has received numerous awards,
including the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize, the PEN American Beyond Margins Award, the
Patterson Prize, and a Lambda Prize for memoir. He was Woodrow Wilson Fellow and has
received numerous honorary degrees. Currently, he serves as Education Ambassador for The
Academy of American Poets and is an Associate Professor at Florida International University. In
April 2022, Blanco was appointed the first-ever Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County.
About “Homeland of My Body: New & Selected Poems”
In this collection of over 100 poems, Richard Blanco has carefully selected poems from his previous books that represent his evolution as a writer grappling with his identity, working to find and define “home,” and bookended them with new poems that address those issues from a fresh, more mature perspective, allowing him to approach surrendering the pain and urgency of his past explorations. Pausing at this pivotal moment in mid-career, Blanco reexamines his life-long quest to find his proverbial home and all that it encompasses: love, family, identity and ultimately art itself. In the closing section of the volume, he has come to understand and internalize the idea that “home” is not one place, not one thing, and lives both inside him and inside his art.

A Conversation with Margaret Galvan discussing her book “In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980’s”
Tuesday January 23 | 6:30 pm
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About Margaret Galvan
About “In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980’s”
In 1982, the protests of antiporn feminists sparked the censorship of the Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, a radical and sexually evocative image-text volume whose silencing became a symbol for the irresolvable feminist sex wars. In Visible Archives documents the community networks that produced this resonant artifact and others, analyzing how visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities.
Margaret Galvan explores a number of feminist and cultural touchstones—the feminist sex wars, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the women in print movement, and countercultural grassroots periodical networks—and examines how visual culture interacts with these pivotal moments. She goes deep into the records to bring together a decade’s worth of research in grassroots and university archives that include comics, collages, photographs, drawings, and other image-text media produced by women, including Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, Marybeth Nelson, Roberta Gregory, Lee Marrs, Alison Bechdel, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Nan Goldin.
The art highlighted in In Visible Archives demonstrates how women represented their bodies and sexualities on their own terms and created visibility for new, diverse identities, thus serving as blueprints for future activism and advocacy—work that is urgent now more than ever as LGBTQ+ and women’s rights face challenges and restrictions across the nation.
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A Conversation with Vic Basile
A Conversation with Brandon Wolf
A Conversation with Erik Rebain
A Conversation with Patrick E. Horrigan
A Conversation with Alan Ceppos
A Conversation with Ryan Pfluger
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A Conversation with Jenn Shapland
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A Conversation with Professor, Author, and Editor Janine Utell
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A Conversation with Author Robert Jones, Jr.
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A Conversation with Author Aaron Lecklider
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A Conversation with Cultural Critic and Author Allen Ellenzweig
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A Conversation with Storyteller and Podcaster Mike Balaban
A Conversation with Historian Stephen Vider
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A Conversation with Beau McCall and Souleo
A Conversation with the John Burton Harter Foundation
A Conversation with Producers John Catania and Charles Ignacio
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A Conversation with Mark Wunderlich – May 20, 2021
A Conversation with Writer, Storyteller, and Publisher Lou Barrett – May 13, 2021
A Conversation with Historian-Journalist Channing Gerard Joseph – May 4, 2021
A Conversation with Briona Simone Jones – April 29, 2021
A Conversation with Ricardo Montez – April 15, 2021
A Conversation with ALOK – March 30, 2021
A Conversation with Yao Xiao – March 24, 2021
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A Conversation with Nikki Greene – March 3, 2021
A Conversation with Lloyd Coleman and Marc Saltarelli – “Studio One Forever” – February 16, 2021
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A Conversation with Jackson Davidow – February 3, 2021
A Conversation with Roxane Gay – January 27, 2021
A Conversation with María José Maldonado – January 19, 2021
A Conversation with Nyala Moon – January 12, 2021
A Conversation with Felicita “Felli” Maynard – January 5, 2021
A Conversation with Angela Chen – December 15, 2020
A Conversation with Maria Bauman-Morales – December 9, 2020
A Conversation with Michelle Handelman – December 3, 2020
A Conversation with Dr. Ramona Laroche – November 19, 2020
A Conversation with Suzanne Stroh – November 11, 2020
A Conversation with Brian McNaught – October 22, 2020
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A Conversation with Jordan Rutter – October 7, 2020
A Conversation with Steven F. Dansky – September 30, 2020
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A Conversation with Esther Newton – May 7, 2020
Stonewall National Education Project Virtual 2020 Symposium on LGBTQ Youth – April 22, 2020
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