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In celebration of National Poetry Month, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava recently announced that Caridad Moro-Gronlier will serve as Miami-Dade’s next Poet Laureate. Moro-Gronlier is an award-winning, community-driven poet who also is a career educator and published author.
“We are making history once again by appointing Caridad as Miami-Dade’s next poet laureate, the first woman in this role,” said Mayor Levine Cava. “As mayor, I have worked to increase access to the arts, as essential to a healthy community and a doorway for civic engagement, inclusion and positive social change. Together with our new poet laureate, we are leveraging the arts to continue to be the most accessible and culturally enriched county in the country. There’s no one better to continue carrying the torch through poetry than Caridad.”
The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, moved to Miami at a young age and since has called South Florida home. She is the author of three books of poetry, the associate editor of SWWIM Every Day, an online daily poetry journal for women-identifying poets, and Poetry-Curator-At-Large for The Betsy’s Writer’s Room.
“I am honored and grateful to have been appointed Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County,” Moro-Gronlier said. “I’m excited to engage with our community at large because I believe there is a poem in everyone. Creativity lives within every zip code in Miami-Dade, and I can’t wait to get started.”
“This is an extra special day for Miami-Dade County as we kick off Poetry Month by naming our next Poet Laureate,” said Nicole Tallman, Poetry Ambassador for Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. “It’s a true pleasure to have a poet as talented as Caridad in this role, and I look forward to working alongside her to further connect our community through poetry and the literary arts, and to celebrate and elevate our local poets.”
Richard Blanco was appointed as the inaugural Poet Laureate in April 2022. Two years after, Blanco officially passed the baton to Moro-Gronlier at the press conference.
“I couldn’t be more excited about Caridad’s well-deserved appointment as Poet Laureate,” Blanco said. “Not only is she an incredibly talented poet, but also a gifted teacher and dedicated community leader. With these qualities I have no doubt she will do wonderous things to connect us all with the life-enriching power of poetry.”
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