C. M. CLARK

Poet, Cherie Clark, is a Professor of Literature and Writing at Miami Dade College who earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Miami. She is a founding member of the steering committee for the Florida Center for the Literary Arts and has been a frequent advisor and moderator for author presentations at the Miami Book Fair. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of publications, including Gulf Stream magazine, the Florida Center for the Literary Arts anthology Write Here, and she is a frequent contributor to the online journal, Asili. She has also been involved in a number of multimedia collaborations with other artists, including “COMPLEMENT/Art Basel,” a video project, as well as “Now Taste This,” an annual event pairing poets and local gourmet chefs. Her work has been published in the recent collection The Blue Hour and in the artbook Pillow Talk—a joint project with painter Georges LeBar. For several years running, she has appeared at the Miami Book Fair International as part of the Write Out Loud reading series. 

The poetic “broadsides” – or poem/posters – on display at the Deering Estate are part of Cherie’s collection entitled Charles Deering Forecasts the Weather. They are works of poetic fiction, exploring both real and virtual lives lived at the Deering Estate; not only by Deering and his family, who came fairly late in the story, but also the early homesteaders. What was here at The Hunting Grounds that drew them all in?