The new issue of the New Orleans Review is out, an addition to the collective body of work that’s among the city’s most formidable literary endeavors still in progress. Elegant as ever and edited by Chris Chambers, it features an outstanding essay by Brad Richard titled “A Poetics of Disaster: Katrina in Poetry, Poetry After … Out Now: the new New Orleans Review
NEW ORLEANS COMMUNITY CINEMA presents a free screening of: ME FACING LIFE: Cyntoia’s Story by Daniel Birman Cyntoia Brown was an average teenager in an American town. But a series of bad decisions led the 16-year-old into a situation that ended with her killing a man who had picked her up for sex. She was … Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story
Book Signing & Reception with New Orleans Political Cartoonist John Slade Please join us at Antenna for a special book signing and reception with award winning political cartoonist JOHN SLADE. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet John and purchase a copy of his highly collectible and entertaining comic AFRO BROTHER SPACEMEN. Afro Brother Spacemen is … Afro Brother Spacemen Book Signing
It was fun while it lasted. Note the comment from Octavia Books owner Tom Lowenburg: “I think it can be seen as a victory for New Orleans. Small businesses are the economic drivers in this city, I’m sorry to see anything close, but I don’t think that it’s a black eye.” Does the closing have … Bye, bye Borders
WE’RE GOIN’ DOWN – Prints, Drawings & Installations by Ben Fox-McCord and Craig Branum. Ben Fox-McCord is an illustrator and installation artist with a background in printmaking. He is a Tennessee native and recent transplant to New Orleans. Craig Branum is an artist with a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Tennessee. Craig’s work … We’re Goin’ Down
The Paris Review recently announced it will feature an interview with Bogaloosa native and former New Orleans resident Yusef Komunyakaa in one of its upcoming issues. Below: Komunyakaa in Ghana, being a badass, as usual.
Brad Richard released a new collection of poems recently, Motion Studies, from which he will read at Octavia Books Thursday, Feb. 10, at 6 p.m. The collection won the 2010 Washington Prize from The Word Works. Richard will also read as part of the Tulane-Loyola-UNO-sponsored 1718 reading series on May 3 at the Columns Hotel. … This Just In: Brad Richard’s MOTION STUDIES
Still titalated by expositions on Creole Cottages and shotguns? Times-Picayune “Streetwalker” columnist Stephanie Bruno presents and signs her new book, New Orleans Streets: A Walker’s Guide to Neighborhood Architecture, on Tues., February 8, at 6 p.m. at Octavia Books. Bruno is the feature interview on Susan Larson’s A Reading Life radio show this week.
I showed up a few minutes after Robert Hass began to speak at Tulane on Monday, Jan. 24, as part of the English Department’s Poet Laureate Series, so when I saw the conspicuous white bandage across the bridge of his nose I assumed he had broken it. I never imaged Hass as a brawler, or … It’s Not a Broken Nose: Robert Hass Reads at Tulane
By Nathan C. Martin It’s 10 p.m. in New Orleans as I write this, and the sun is coming up on Cairo. After a day and a night of being shot at and beaten by police—attacks that have killed several and injured hundreds—protesters remain in Tahrir Square, demanding the end of President Mubarak’s 30-year regime. … On the Uprising: An Interview with the Editors of Meena Magazine
