RM220

<p>Room 220 Literary Archive: includes essays, reviews, poetry and prose published by Antenna’s RM220 as well as literary events around town.</p>

UNO Creative Writing Workshop hosts Laura Mullen and Afton Wilky on March 9

The University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop will host a reading by Laura Mullen & Afton Wilky at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9, at the University of New Orleans Lakefront Campus, Liberal Arts Building, Room 197. The reading will be followed by a Q&A, book signing, and brief reception. The event is supported in part by Poets & Writers. … UNO Creative Writing Workshop hosts Laura Mullen and Afton Wilky on March 9

Rickey Laurentiis to headline the New Orleans New Writers 2016 LitFest March 12 and give a reading at NOCCA March 10

Poet Rickey Laurentiis will give the keynote reading for the 9th annual New Orleans New Writers Literary Festival at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts’ (2800 Chartres St.). Laurentiis is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2012 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry … Rickey Laurentiis to headline the New Orleans New Writers 2016 LitFest March 12 and give a reading at NOCCA March 10

To make this inscrutable thing understandable: An interview with Anya Groner

Anya Groner’s work has appeared in Guernica, The Rumpus, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Her projects include a recently produced chapbook of poetry and a novel-in-progress called The Trouble With Girls. She has published everything from essays to poetry, but her work frequently deals with the contentious relationships between young people, especially sisters. She … To make this inscrutable thing understandable: An interview with Anya Groner

Zadie Smith reads at Tulane on March 1

Author Zadie Smith, who is this year’s Zale-Kimmerling Writer in Residence at Tulane University, will give a reading and sit for an interview with Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé, Assistant Professor in English, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1, at the Lavin-Bernick Center (Kendall Cram Auditorium, 2nd floor). Smith is the author of six books, most recently NW, which is … Zadie Smith reads at Tulane on March 1

I don’t have to leave New Orleans, it’s leaving me: An interview with Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Maurice Carlos Ruffin has always been a writer, he says, but his writing speaks for itself on this account. Ruffin, a New Orleans native, earned his MFA in 2013 and has been taking the literary community by storm ever since. His work has been widely published, and he has received several accolades, including the 2014 … I don’t have to leave New Orleans, it’s leaving me: An interview with Maurice Carlos Ruffin

This was an intellectual tool as well as a political tribune: Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio on editing the anthology SOUFFLES-ANFAS

A decade after Morocco gained independence from France, which colonized the nation from 1912 – 1956, a group of Moroccan poets, artists, and intellectuals launched a pair of journals that became critical venues for avant-garde art and writing, leftist politics, and transnational dialogs between writers and activists from Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Souffles, launched … This was an intellectual tool as well as a political tribune: Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio on editing the anthology SOUFFLES-ANFAS

ROOM 220 Presents the New Orleans launch for the Souffles-Anfas Anthology

Antenna’s RM220 presents the New Orleans launch for Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25, at Antenna Gallery (3718 St. Claude Ave.). The anthology introduces and makes available, for the first time in English, an incandescent corpus of experimental leftist writing from North Africa. Editors … ROOM 220 Presents the New Orleans launch for the Souffles-Anfas Anthology