Join us offsite at Antenna when we help launch author Daniel Brook‘s new book, THE ACCIDENT OF COLOR: A Story of Race in Reconstruction. A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white. In THE ACCIDENT OF COLOR,…
Lina Iris Viktor: A Haven, A Hell, A Dream Deferred (A Review)
Lina Iris Viktor, Eleventh, 2018 Something used by someone else carries a history with it. A piece of cloth, a platter, a cut-glass pitcher, a recipe. A history and a spirit. You want to know when it was used. And…
RM220: New Year’s Day with M’Bilia Meekers, Brad Richard, & Andy Young
Room 220 presents readings from M’Bilia Meekers, Brad Richard, and Andy Young at 5 p.m. on Monday, January 1, at Antenna Gallery (3718 St. Claude Ave.). M’Bilia Meekers is a poet who has received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, and Poets &…
The asking is never idle: A review of Carolyn Hembree’s Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague
Room 220 will host the New Orleans launch of Carolyn Hembree’s Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, a collection of her poetry published by Trio House Press. The book won the 2015 Trio Award, selected by…
A very nice negotiation: An interview with Uriel Quesada
I interviewed Uriel Quesada at an uptown coffee shop. Our conversation began the moment I joined Quesada at his table — he’s a dynamic speaker, very animated, excited to talk as much about himself as everything outside of himself. The interview…
Okay, someone’s making a blood offering: An interview with Alex Mar
Alex Mar’s new book, Witches of America, is a search for meaning, esoteric and otherwise. She takes her reader on a spiritual cross-country road trip from the Bay Area of California to New Orleans, from the prairies of the Midwest…