Free to attend. Featured readers are Dr. Jerry Ward, George Bishop, Louis Maistros, Carolyn Hembree, Geoff Munsterman, and more to be named. All are welcome to read or listen. Beverages will be available, or you can bring your own. Bloomsday, the only international literary festival, is based on James Joyce’s modernist novel Ulysses. Bloomsday always takes … NOLA Bloomsday 2017
The Dogfish Reading Series will be hosting Laura Mullen and Tiana Nobile at 2448 North Villere St. The author of eight books, LAURA MULLEN has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and a Rona Jaffe awardee and her work has been included in Norton anthologies and has been published in The New Yorker, … Dogfish presents Laura Mullen and Tiana Nobile
The Above Ground Zine Library hosts a Locals only zine reading at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 8, at Rank & File Books (5206 Magazine Street). Robb Roemershauser, Nicole Jenelle, Coatlin Keezly, Jules Bentley, Dessa Lee, and others will read from their works. The event is free, and new zines from the authors will be for sale.
Octavia Books hosts Roxane Gay at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 12, at the JCC (5342 St. Charles). Gay will read from and sign copies of her book. You must pre-purchase the book from Octavia Books to attend the event, and only copies purchased from Octavia Books will be signed. New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with … Roxane Gay in conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Poets & Writers presents a reading & performance of Michael “Quess?” Moore’s latest book followed, by a signing and workshop exploring identity politics and the crossroads where where micro aggressions meet macro-oppression. Sleeper Cell is a collection of poems that investigate the institutionalized racism and disenfranchisement of Black youth and one poet’s radical ascension from that degradation. Quess? … Sleeper Cell; book reading, signing, & workshop
Join the Garden District Shop with Lucy “LuLu” Buffett for a true Southern Coastal-style “Meet & Eat” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 8, at 2727 Prytania Street. They will serve up tastings of LuLu’s famous seafood gumbo, raw oysters and a signature cocktail. She will also discuss and sign her book, Gumbo Love: Recipes … Lucy Buffett Book Signing – Garden District Book Shop
Team Slam New Orleans will be performing at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center (1712 O.C. Haley Blvd.) at 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 4. Says the team: “The members of Team SNO are gearing up for the summer slam season, but before we go to represent our fair New Orleans, we want to give the dopest … Team SNO Open Mic and Slam ft. Jahman Hill
Poets Monica Mankin, Clare Martin, and Sean Munro will perform selected readings at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 3, at the Milton H. Latter Memorial Library (5120 St. Charles Avenue). Monica Mankin is the co-founder of im-possible, a “deeply ambitious design think tank and policy-driven research institution that supports and facilitates innovative theoretical and achievable design solutions … Monica Mankin, Clare Martin, and Sean Munro poetry reading
Sunday, June 11, 5-7pm @ Antenna, 3718 St. Claude Come celebrate the publication of Kristin Sanders’ CUNTRY, from Trembling Pillow Press and a 2015 National Poetry Series finalist. Sanders will read alongside poets Laura Mullen, Rodrigo Toscano, Jerika Marchan, and Megan McHugh. In these wall-to-wall poems about voyeurism, sexuality and consent in the Internet age, Kristin … RM220 presents: Book Launch for Kristin Sanders’ CUNTRY
Letters Read: The Hermann & Grima family letters 6:30-8pm, Thursday, June 29th, 2017 Hermann-Grima House, 820 St. Louis Street Tickets at the door are $10 (regular admission) / $7 Seniors / $5 Members (Including Antenna::Signals Subscribers!) Letters Read is a series of live events produced in collaboration with stationer Nancy Sharon Collins in which performers interpret personal … Letters Read : The Hermann & Grima family letters
