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

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”

On two shows about development utilizing archival media

On the opening of the Museum of Paper and Printing in a local bathroom

On the opening of the Museum of Sex Miami

A poem about the Venice biennale and birds

Two poems about pigeons and swimming

A short story about artisan ice cream and living with disaster

On digitizing a defunct South Florida magazine that launched the career of humorist Dave Barry and created the greatest scavenger hunt in Miami history

On the largest publically held 16mm film collection in the South

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

On graffiti culture in Miami, rapid development, and the oranges of Atomik

“follow the rabbits / and they’ll take the long way / underground and put on / the old role of Chiron”

On Jen Clay’s quilted video game novel and Japanese dating simulators

On poetry as a guide to abortifacients

Fun with a Bolex camera in rural Iowa