The Men

Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s preview coverage of Miami Book Fair (MBF) 2025! We’ve been partnering with MBF since 2020 to bring you stimulating, inspiring work. From November 3 to 14, watch daily features on a selection of poets, just a glimpse of the incredible authors participating in this year’s MBF, the nation’s largest gathering of writers and readers of all ages. For more information about these and other authors, visit miamibookfaironline.com, follow @miamibookfair on Instagram and X, and join the conversation with #miamibookfair2025.

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Jo-Ann Mort will read at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, November 22, at 4:30 p.m. Location: Building 8, Second Floor, Room 8203.

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Jo-Ann Mort ‘s first book of poems, published at age of 69, is A Precise Chaos (Arrowsmith Press). Her poems have been published widely in the US and the UK. She is also a journalist, specializing in Israel/Palestine, progressive politics, and global democracy. Through the decades, she has been a political activist, working in the trade union movement, advising NGOs in the US and abroad, and working with philanthropies. She is on the steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action. A 1978 graduate of Sarah Lawrence, Jo-Ann lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.