“From One Florida Boy to Another, Thank You”: An Interview with P. Scott Cunningham

To love Miami is to embrace a kind of grief as a way of living, which is not to say that Miamians are sad. Rather the opposite. I think Miamians are joyful because they don’t have any misconceptions about their city’s ephemerality. They know the places they love are doomed, and they love them harder because of it.

AHP author P. Scott Cunningham was recently featured in an interview with Prairie Schooner, where he spoke with Travis Cohen Acosta about his new poetry collection, Self-Portrait as the “i” in Florida. Their conversation explores Cunningham’s deep connection to South Florida, the role of place in shaping identity, and how his move to the Midwest reframed the book as a tribute to his home.

Thank you to Prairie Schooner and Travis Cohen Acosta for this thoughtful and engaging conversation.

Read the whole interview here.