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LITERARY CULTURAL PROGRAMS ESCRIBE AQUI WRITE HERE Iberoamerican Literature and Culture With Suburbano Ediciones Books Books VONA Voices and the University of Miami WRITERS FOR YOUNG READERS With Miami Dade County Public Schools FIU Miami Dade Public Library System LGBTQ READING SERIES With Unity Coalition Ambiente Magazine Reading Queer and Aqua Foundation JAMES LOUGHLIN AWARD RESIDENCIES With the Academy of American Poets JAI LAI PUBLISHING RESIDENCIES With O Miami Jai Lai Publishing and Knight Foundation WRITERS ON THE BAY With Florida International University Creative Writing Program EXILE WRITERS PROGRAM With Florida International University Exile Studies and English Department HYAM PLUTZIK CREATIVE WRITING RESIDENCIES With Trinity College s Watkinson Library THE BETSY S A CAPPELLA FESTIVAL With wide ranging sponsors including Auction com NATIONAL POETRY MONTH PROGRAMS With O Miami and The Hyam Plutzik Poetry Series at the University of Rochester TEEN SLAM POETRY INITIATIVES With Tigertail and Dranoff 2 Piano Foundation COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE INITIATIVES With Dranoff 2 Pianos Miami Summer Music Festival and New Music Festival SHAKESPEARE SPECIAL PROGRAMS INTIATIVES With the Philip Frost Museum and Department of English at FIU JEWISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE SERIES With the Jewish American Holocaust Literature Conference Greater Miami Jewish Federation and Arts at St John s La Convivencia Series TRANSART saluting transgender artists and writers With TransMiami and Unity Coalition Coalicion Unida SUMMER RESIDENCIES FOR CREATIVES THAT TEACH Supporting global faculty artists K 16

THE WRITER S ROOM AT THE BETSY The Betsy s Writers Room is a home for poets writers and creatives in all genres Since opening in April 2012 nearly 300 creatives have been in residence at The Betsy Out of my life I fashioned a fistful of words When I opened my hand they flew away Hyam Plutzik 1911 1962 WRITERS ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE Elmaz Abinader Faith Adiele Melanie Almeader Christina Baker Kline Erin Belieu Jennifer Benka Greg Berman Elise Bernhardt James Bertolino R Dwayne Betts Mark Bibbins Andrea Billups Magrit Bisztray Malachi Black Brian Blanchfield Richard Blanco Scott Blankenship Philip Bloom Bill Bolcom Cathy Bowman Hunter Braithwaite Pablo Brescia Steven Brinberg Kylar Broadus Melissa Broder Katey Brunini Teo Castenallanos Partial lists Joy Castro E e Charlton Trujillo Dorie Clark Charles Cobb Billy Collins Julia Cooke Christopher Cozier Scott Cunningham Luis Eligio D Omin Donald Daedalus Deborah Dash Moore Paz de la Huerta Matt de la Pena Amanda Deutsch Adele Dinerstein Richard Dixon Nathan Duele Jake Ehrenreich Amy Eisner Patricia Engel Oskar Eustice Giovanni Falchetti MJ Fievre Nikky Finney Carla Forte Daisy Fried M Evelina Galang Mary Gannon Alberto Garcia Pujals Amina Gautier Annabel Gueredrat Daniel Halpern Mark Harris Arlo Haskell Robert Hass Sarah Heston Michael Hettich Alice Ho John Hodgen Chenjerai Hove Marc Irwin Major Jackson Daniel Jones David Kaufman Thomas E Kennedy A S King Ilyse Kusnetz David Lehman Patricia Lockwood Ana Macari Kekla Magoon Jamaal May Ted Merwin Ben Mezrich Sherrill Milnes Vincent Moon Aram Moshayedi John Murillo Alex Myers Emily Nemens Ali Noorani Idra Novey Michael Ondaatje Gregory Pardlo Mike Paterniti Ariana Reines Michael Reynolds Megan Roth Nina Runsdorf Kay Ryan Don Share Emilio Sosa Guy Stern Eve Sussman Thomas Swick Amy Tan Neil Tobin Brian Turner Hernan Vera Alvarez Nick von Bloss Julie Marie Wade Join the conversation bwritersroom

RECOGNITION NY Times 2013 Top Literary Hotel CNN 2013 One of Top 14 hotels globally inspired by literature 2011 Wall Street Journal Betsy has the Write Stuff Best American Poetry 2015 The Betsy is set apart from other hotels by the owner s commitment to the arts Miami Modern Luxury 2015 A hotel that operates on a platform of philanthropy arts culture and education Miami Herald 2014 Betsy is set apart from other hotels by its commitment to the arts 2012 Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Winner for The Writers Room The time space and environment allowed me to stay focused and work diligently I wrote at the desk of Hyam Plutzik and was surrounded by his poetry No doubt that his legacy and the honor I felt while writing there fueled my creativity allowing me to complete that very first draft My deepest gratitude goes to The Betsy and all who sustain her in providing such an important creative womb Teo Castellanos Playwright Poet Writer s Room Residency July 2014 I once looked at poetry as little more than beautiful language Later it was a way of communicating the nuances of the world More recently I have begun to look at poetry as the great synthesizer the humanizer of knowledge Hyam Plutzik American Poet 1911 1962 Celebrating 53 years of the Hyam Plutzik Reading Series at University of Rochester www hyamplutzikpoetry com The Writer s Room at The Betsy South Beach 1440 Ocean Drive Miami Beach FL 33139 thebetsyhotel com thebetsywritersroom com Join the conversation bwritersroom