Francess Archer Dunbar is a writer and poet. She teaches and archives student poetry with O, Miami’s Sunroom program in public schools, and previously worked with the Miami Book Fair and served on the screening committee for the 41st Miami Film Festival. She is a 2025 AICA-USA Art Criticism Fellow and Deering Estate Literary Artist-in-Residence.
Events
5.27.24 - Tarot & poetry readings at the Perez Art Museum Miami
4.26.24 - Meet-a-Poet Micro-Residency at Books & Books Coral Gables
4.18.24 - Featured Reader at O, Miami Poetry Festival with Angel Nafis, Raymond Antrobus, and Jubi Arriola-Headley
4.5.24 - Featured Reader at the Miami-Dade Public Library’s Jazz & Poetry Series with Caroline Cabrera
8.31.23, 10.1.23, 11.26.23 - Miami Banned Book Club at Paradis Books & Bread (RIP)
10.23.23 - Tarot & poetry readings at Dale Zine for Miss Happy Zine
9.9.23 - Tarot & poetry readings at Jolt Radio with Buen Provecho Collective
7.22.23 - Collage Workshop with Recreate Miami
Writing
On the murals of Serge Toussaint
Oxford American x Burnaway: Signs of the Times
On Palestine and censorship in South Florida
Hyperallergic: Activists Hold “No to Genocide” Protest Outside Art Basel Miami Beach
The Art Newspaper: Artist withdraws from Miami-area exhibition over anti-BDS language in contract
On light, mentorship, and the grid
Too Much Love: “Aesthetic Dialogues with Lynne Golob Gelfman”
On Rachel Feinstein’s “The Miami Years”
Miami New Times: Rachel Feinstein at the Bass Museum
On two shows about development utilizing archival media
Too Much Love: Barron Sherer and Rosemarie Chiarlone
On the opening of the Museum of Paper and Printing in a local bathroom
Miami New Times: IS Projects Re-Brands as Museum of Paper and Printing
On the opening of the Museum of Sex Miami
The Art Newspaper: Come one, come all: Museum of Sex finally opens in Miami
A poem about the Venice biennale and birds
Rose Books Hotline: “On Augury”
Two poems about pigeons and swimming
Adult Groceries: “On Sex” & “On Molasses Books in Brooklyn”
A short story about artisan ice cream and living with disaster
Moral Crema: Thank You for Coming In Today
On digitizing a defunct South Florida magazine that launched the career of humorist Dave Barry and created the greatest scavenger hunt in Miami history
Islandia Journal/Bookleggers Library: Tropic Magazine
On the largest publically held 16mm film collection in the South
Miami New Times: AV Club Is Helping to Uncover a Trove of Miami History
A short poem about Art Basel for issue two of Undrbelly Magazine
On misael soto’s Bridge Deconstruction project and Miami Beach’s history as a sundown town
Burnaway Magazine: Two Cities Abridged
On graffiti culture in Miami, rapid development, and the oranges of Atomik
Burnaway Magazine: In Miami, Oranges Grow on Prime Real Estate
“follow the rabbits / and they’ll take the long way / underground and put on / the old role of Chiron”
voicemail poems: “rabbit rabbit”
On Jen Clay’s quilted video game novel and Japanese dating simulators
Burnaway Magazine: Reviewing Eyes of the Skin by Jen Clay
On poetry as a guide to abortifacients
RHINO Reviews: Reviewing Kathryn Nuernberger’s Rue
Fun with a Bolex camera in rural Iowa