O, Miami founder, Knight Arts grantee and FIU grad P. Scott Cunningham is profiled in this month’s FIU Magazine.

“The invitation, in true P. Scott Cunningham style, was irresistible,” writes author Dan Grech. “He’s throwing an “old-fashioned book party” in honor of poet Adrian Matejka, and you’re invited.

If you didn’t know Cunningham, you might read “old-fashioned” and think this was a poetry reading straight out of Downton Abbey, with cocktails served by coat-tailed waiters surrounded by leather-bound books. What Scott meant by “old-fashioned” was the opposite: hip, retro, and not to be missed…”

Click here to read the complete story in FIU Magazine P. Scott Cunningham MFA ’08, photographed by James Harris (UK)