The Antenna Gallery Outdoor Auxiliary (AOA) is a multi-purpose reclaimed urban cultural space that functions at the intersection of blight and art, offering an ideal collaborative event venue for the burgeoning St. Claude Arts District… Aw, who am I kidding? It’s a fucking concrete slab with some crumbling brick walls around it. This is what … The Antenna Gallery Outdoor Auxiliary (AOA)
By Erik Vande Stouwe Andy Stallings is a poet of the New Poetry. He writes in and out of the vertiginous accumulation of the Modernist influence. Consistent across the work I have read is an aggressive interrogation of language. This necessitates also a confrontation with sound, nation, and self. Stallings hails from Washington state and … The poem is my own experience: An interview with Andy Stallings
I did my taxes last night, and the nice VITA fellow who helped me let me know that I had mis-checked a box on the prep form I filled out—under the question, “Do you live in an area affected by a natural disaster?” He told me to always check “Yes” in New Orleans, at least … Whirlwind of poetry events to hit New Orleans next week!
Novelist David Ohle enjoys a staunch cult following owed primarily to his classic Motorman, which Gordon Lish has called one of his favorite books. Motorman follows the hapless everyman Moldenke as he navigates the gray areas of a dystopic world of government moons and manmade humanoids called “jellyheads.” The new issue of the New Orleans … EXCERPT: The Old Reactor, by David Ohle
The Historic New Orleans Collection will celebrate the launch of Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans by Ben Sandmel this Wednesday, April 11, from 6 – 8 p.m. at the HNOC HQ, 533 Royal Street. Sandmel will sit for an interview with Karen Celestan—co-author of the Harold Battiste Jr. biography the HNOC put out … FOOL SHUT YOUR MOUTH UP: Ernie K-Doe book launch this Wednesday!!!
Andy Young and Jessica Henricksen celebrate the release of new books along with poet and THERMOS co-editor Andy Stallings! 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 17, at the Antenna Gallery (3161 Burgundy St.) Andy Young, author of The People is Singular (Press Street, 2012), will give an intimate presentation of poems to follow-up the multimedia performance extravaganza … Room 220 Presents: Live Poetry at the Antenna Gallery
SIFT and the New Orleans Public Library will host an Edible Book contest on Saturday, April 14, at 1 p.m. at the Alvar Library in the Bywater (913 Alvar St.). An edible book is anything “bookish” composed of entirely edible materials. Entries can achieve their bookishness by incorporating text, referencing a literary work, or simply … More than a sandwich? Edible books at NOPL
Common sense suggests that the vast majority of the 60,000 used books, DVDs, CDs, VHS, cassettes, and records on sale this Thursday through Sunday at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner will be total crap. But, in such volume, there are not only bound to be some gems, but my guess is that the reading public … What they don’t want, you might: Jefferson Parish Library’s Big Book Sale
Seven years after the publication of Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole–which I seem to vaguely remember picking up, leafing through, and putting down, underwhelmed–Da Capo Press and author Cory MacLauchlin have brought us the hipper-sounding and -looking Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story … Another John Kennedy Toole biography, this one with a cooler cover
Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine included a piece by Nathaniel Rich on nature’s apparent upper hand in the Lower Ninth Ward. Rich, a writer based in New Orleans, read as part of the Room 220 Live Prose at the Antenna Gallery reading series last November. Here’s an excerpt from “Jungleland“: “My neighbor just saw a … Nathaniel Rich in the Lower Ninth
