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Violence, alcohol abuse, racism, sex, extreme weather, and finally, a sort of liberalism: An interview with Nancy Dixon on her anthology of 200 years of New Orleans literature

By C.W. Cannon An ambitious new volume, N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature, collects short fiction and plays that reflect the city’s literary history, from Paul Louis LeBlanc de Villeneufve’s 18th-century play The Festival of the Young Corn, or The Heroism of Poucha-Houmma to Fatima Shaik’s 1987 short story “Climbing Monkey Hill,” with … Violence, alcohol abuse, racism, sex, extreme weather, and finally, a sort of liberalism: An interview with Nancy Dixon on her anthology of 200 years of New Orleans literature

Diversions Juror Walktrhough with Freidrich Kerksieck & Luba Zygarewicz

  Freidrich Kerksieck & Luba Zygarewicz Juror Walkthrough The Reading Room 220 host a juror’s walkthrough of Diversions on Thursday, April 24 at 6pm. Friedrich Kerksieck and Luba Zygarewicz will each talk about a few of the pieces in the exhibition. Diversions is presented in partnership between SIFT and Press Street’s Reading Room 220.

Parameters Artist Happy Hour Salon with Gerald Cannon

Gerald Cannon Artist Happy Hour Salon On Thursday, May 1, 6pm, Antenna Gallery will host a Happy Hour Artist Salon with Gerald Cannon. Cannon is a professor at Loyola University where he teaches Digital Arts. He will discuss and present his current work. Parameters is presented in partnership between SIFT and Press Street’s Antenna Gallery.

Parameters & Diversions

Parameters On View: April 12 – May 4, 2014 Opening Reception: April 12, 6-9pm Happy Hour Artist Salon with Gerald Cannon: May 1, 6pm Parameters features work from national and local artists who use chance experiments, media or process restrictions, and conceptual rules as boundaries or guidelines to form their work. The exhibition includes artist … Parameters & Diversions

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

Call for entries: 2014 New Orleans Loving Festival Essay Competition

The New Orleans Loving Festival is accepting entries for the 2014 Youth Essay Contest.  The Loving Festival is a multiracial community celebration and film festival that challenges racial discrimination through outreach and education. Middle school and high school students in the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner metropolitan area are invited to submit essays that addresses: Why we should … Call for entries: 2014 New Orleans Loving Festival Essay Competition

Richard Siken to headline the New Orleans New Writers 2014 LitFest March 27 and give a reading at UNO March 28

Poet Richard Siken will give the keynote reading for the 7thd annual New Orleans New Writers Literary Festival at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts’ (2800 Chartres St.). Siken is the recipient of a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the … Richard Siken to headline the New Orleans New Writers 2014 LitFest March 27 and give a reading at UNO March 28

Cinema Reset – MMXIII

Presented by Cinema Reset TEASER HERE: http://incproductions.org/mmxiii/teaser/ Doors open at 7:00pm. Screening begins at 7:30. Snacks and drinks will be served. Ian Clark is an American artist whose work ranges from narrative cinema and photography to experimental lens and light-based projects. One of Filmmaker’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, his work has shown atthe Portland Art … Cinema Reset – MMXIII