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The Delta Mouth Literary Festival chips away at Baton Rouge’s doldrums April 3 – 6

LSU’s graduate creative writing program and its cohorts will try very hard to make our normally dull state capital appealing (to book nerds) for at least one weekend this year by hosting the Delta Mouth Literary Festival April 3 – 6 at venues throughout Baton Rouge. Interests vary among featured presenters, such as Wayne Koestenbaum, … The Delta Mouth Literary Festival chips away at Baton Rouge’s doldrums April 3 – 6

The Violent Education of a Christian Racist

Author and Baton Rouge native Tim Parrish will present his new memoir, Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10, at Octavia Books (513 Octavia St.). Fear and What Follows is the story of Parrish’s working class, Southern Baptist upbringing that transformed into a nightmarish … The Violent Education of a Christian Racist

A New Orleans poet abroad: Paul Killebrew reports from the Delta Mouth Literary Festival

The Delta Mouth Literary Festival took place in Baton Rouge last month, and among its docket of readers that spanned the three-day extravaganza was New Orleans’ own Paul Killebrew, poet extraordinaire and attorney for the Innocence Project. Paul agreed to chronicle his journey and experience for Room 220, and although his descriptions seem to insist … A New Orleans poet abroad: Paul Killebrew reports from the Delta Mouth Literary Festival

The inimitable Christian Bok at the Delta Mouth Lit Fest

Poet and theorist Craig Dworkin, who edits the fantastic Eclipse website, randomly showed up as a professor at my college during my senior year and taught a class of baffling writing that I barely understood (or didn’t understand!) and that I’ve never quite recovered from, in the best way possible. We discussed pataphysics, read Lyn … The inimitable Christian Bok at the Delta Mouth Lit Fest