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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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Naomi Shihab Nye will read at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, November 22, at 10:00 a.m. Location: Auditorium – Building 1, Second Floor.

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Naomi Shihab Nye has been Young People’s Poet Laureate (Poetry Foundation) and has written or edited more than 30 books of poetry & prose. She lives in San Antonio. Her most recent book is Grace Notes: Poems About Families. She and her friend Marion Winik edited I Know About a Thousand Things – The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas. For 50 years, she has worked as a visiting writer all over the world.