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What’s So Tremendous About Comfort?: A Review of Laura Mullen’s Complicated Grief

Laura Mullen will read as part of the New Orleans Poetry Festival at 7 pm on Saturday, April 16th, at Mag’s (940 Elysian Fields). Pierre Joris, Nicole Peyraffite, Niyi Osundare, and Adeena Karasick will also read. Complicated Grief Laura Mullen Solid Objects, 2015 Laura Mullen’s writing, especially her emphasis on genre hybridity, urges readers to face emotional … What’s So Tremendous About Comfort?: A Review of Laura Mullen’s Complicated Grief

The First Annual New Orleans Poetry Festival will be held April 15-17

Poetry lovers of the world, unite: not only is April National Poetry Month, but this weekend is the first annual New Orleans Poetry Festival (April 15-17), organized by Lavender Ink Press. While the Crescent City is no stranger to poetry events, reading series, and poetry-themed programming at its many festivals, the New Orleans Poetry Festival … The First Annual New Orleans Poetry Festival will be held April 15-17

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

If only we didn’t try to be bigger than our hearts with our hearts: An interview with Jenn Marie Nunes

Jenn Marie Nunes will publish her first full-length book, AND/OR, this spring with Switchback Books after winning the feminist press’ inaugural Queer Voices contest, judged by Dawn Lundy Martin. Jenn and I both graduated from LSU’s Creative Writing MFA program in 2009. We were each other’s first friends as we tried to navigate the weirdness … If only we didn’t try to be bigger than our hearts with our hearts: An interview with Jenn Marie Nunes