Democracy. That is a shame. It is a disgrace. It is really an open scandal. And we need to do something about that. I would totally embrace the comment that we need you as much as we can, first of all to change our policies we dont incarcerate so many people. And secondly for those people have been incarcerated i think we do over stigmatize them. We do hurt their ability to come out of prison and get on with the gainful, productive life. I wholeheartedly embrace the sentiment of that collect. Host gelled in florida. Caller good morning. I have a question for professor kennedy. Some of us look towards affirmative action us to blacks entering university circuit. I happened to be one who graduated from a Major University, white Major University in the state of ohio. This was before affirmative action. Far too many times there is nothing said about those of us who were participants in the collegiate atmosphere, collegiate i guess academia, that existed before affirmative action. What is hi
For our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And welcome to day to as live coverage of the 2014 Miami Book Fair civil. This weekend our 17th year in a row of live coverage by the way, 25 authors in 20 hours of live coverage. Today, panelists include New York Times book review editor pamela paul, Walter Mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer College Opportunities for you today. Randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and David Rothkopf irans Foreign Policy magazine will be talking about u. S. Foreign policy. Full schedule of todays live coverage from miami is available at our website, booktv. Org. All they wanted and get updates of behind the scenes photos at booktv. Org twitter handle. You can also join us at facebook. Com booktv. If youre in the area, come on down. Cspan bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. Would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. The su
Thank you. [applause] good afternoon. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce the presenters for this program. Richard blanco said he was made in cuba, assembled in spain and imported to the u. S. His family fled cuba after the revolution and eventually settled in miami. As a child, he possessed based on creative but also excelled in math and the sciences. In fact, before obtaining a masters in fine art from Florida International university he worked as a consulting engineer. Mr. Blanco released his first book of poetry in 1999 which won agnes lynch portrait prize. In 2005 he published directions to the beach of the day which received the beyond margins award. His 2012 his 2012 collection of coins titled looking for the gold was how touches on his life as a saturday man between domestic and integrated culture. When he was chose as the fifth poet of the United States for barack obama that cannot duration mr. Blanche go follows in the foots
Its a very useful program. I would like to see it extended to childless dads or dads who are not living with their children so they can have an incentive to work and employers can have an incentive to hire them. We can have more Child Support paid and more families working together. There are some things we can do to try to help this population the middle but its really hard. Its difficult because the factory jobs we saw in baltimore are not coming back. Host labors love lost is the name of the book the rise and fall of the workingclass family in america. Johns hopkins sociologist Andrew Cherlin is the author and here is the cover. Charles blow Richard Blanco discuss their memoirs at the miami book fair. This is about an hour, 15. [applause] good afternoon. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce the presenters for this program. Richard blanco says he was making cuba, assembled in spain and imported to the usa. His family fled cuba after t
When i dont, weird things start to happen like, you know, creating spread sheets to figure out multiple times to change the cat litter or Something Like that. It gets crazy. You know, busy hands are happy hands . That applies to my left brain, and i dont want it to start taking it out on my work, because then i start on my poetry, because then i start approaching my writing with this very sort of analytical mind which helps in editing, but not necessarily in the initial phases of work. But ive got to face it, you know, theres been a fork in the road drawn for me. I dont think im going back to engineering at this point in my life. Theres a lot of signs that say keep going this way, so host how long, how many drafts did it take to get to the poem you read at the inaugural . Guest well, i have at home a stack this thing. [laughter] again, with poetry drafts take on a different meaning. That might mean you take two words, and you throw it in the draft pile. But i only had a week. I had to