Room 220 is pleased to host a group of writers brought to New Orleans by PANK Magazine at 7 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Antenna Gallery. PANK is an literary undertaking that includes periodicals both print and online, as well as a chapbook imprint. Its editors occasionally muster PANK‘s national network of writers … Live Prose and Poetry: PANK Magazine Invades New Orleans
Room 220 is pleased to host an evening of live poetry at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, at the Antenna Gallery. Joshua Edwards is director and co-editor of Canarium Books, an esteemed publisher of poetry that has released books by Ish Klein, John Beer, Paul Killebrew, and Robert Fernandez, among others. Edwards is the … Poetry at Antenna: Josh Edwards, Liz Countryman, and Samuel Amadon
Sick! Twisted! Dirty! Repulsive! Calling all degenerates! Come out for the Scumbag Cinema Double Feature Series! Get out of the flop house, crack house, or from under that bridge and come by for some of the weirdest films you’ve never seen! This stuff’ll stain your mind and be sure to send your soul straight to … Scumbag Cinema – Litan & Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
The tenth annual New Orleans Book Fair takes places this Saturday, Nov. 5, on Frenchmen Street from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. There will be craploads of tables of books and other bound printed matter lining the sidewalks, and tons of (really attractive!) literary people browsing through them. Go act like you’re checking out the … Get a Date This Saturday at the New Orleans Book Fair!
Sick! Twisted! Dirty! Repulsive! Calling all degenerates! Come out for the Scumbag Cinema Double Feature Series! Get out of the flop house, crack house, or from under that bridge and come by for some of the weirdest films you’ve never seen! This stuff’ll stain your mind and be sure to send your soul straight to … Scumbag Cinema – Hausu & House
Sick! Twisted! Dirty! Repulsive! Calling all degenerates! Come out for the Scumbag Cinema Series! Get out of the flop house, crack house, or from under that bridge and come by for some of the weirdest films you’ve never seen! This stuff’ll stain your mind and be sure to send your soul straight to hell! Admission … Scumbag Cinema – Street Trash
crowdsourced animation from the 2011 Draw-a-thon from C.Egan on Vimeo. November 12-13 at the Old Iron Works – Located at 612 Piety Street (New Location!!!) This year it is important that you back our Draw-a-thon kickstarter Campaign! Draw-a-thon is an expensive enterprise and it won’t be possible this year without generous support from folks … DRAW-A-THON 2011
By Taylor Murrow In A Meaning for Wife (Ig Publishing), a man’s wife has died from an allergic reaction to cashews. Coping with her loss and his newfound role as a single dad, he travels to his childhood home to attend his twenty-year high school reunion. While there, he stays with his parents and is … The “Youness” of It: An Interview with Mark Yakich
By Aubrey Edwards Over 90 percent of the roughly 5,000 inmates in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola will die on its grounds, their sentences too long to live out. Warden Burl Cain and prison administrators have responded to the graying population by implementing a hospice program, through which inmates care for those who are … Gravity and Grace: An interview with Lori Waselchuk
Mark Yakich will celebrate the launch of his novel A Meaning for Wife as part of Room 220’s Live Prose at the Antenna Gallery reading series at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 27, along with Ig Publishing press-mate Laura Ellen Scott, author of Death Wishing. Mark Yakich is a poet and an associate professor of … Mark Yakich and Laura Ellen Scott read at Antenna Gallery Oct. 27
