Kay Murphy facilitates a poetry workshop at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, at the Alvar Library (913 Alvar Street). Kay Murphy is a Professor Emeritus at the University of New Orleans where she taught in the English department, the Creative Writing Workshop, and the Honors Program, and served as Poetry Editor for Bayou. She … Poetry Workshop with Kay Murphy
Come see Eno Edet’s Library of the Ridiculous at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 15, at the Art Klub (1941 Arts Street). Told from the perspective of the “have-not,” Mr. Eno’s book collection makes up what is called The Library of the Ridiculous. Participants of all ages are invited to make books with Mr. Eno … Library of the Ridiculous Closing Reception
The second annual New Orleans Poetry Festival presents their famous Poets with Bands at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 20, at Cafe Istanbul NOLA (2372 St. Claude Ave). This year’s show features Kelcy Mae, Skin Verb, Jamie Bernstein, The Geraniums, The Call Girls, and special guests. Admission is free to festival pass holders or $15 … Poets with Bands
Take a look at queer arts and artists at Queerspective at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19, at the New Orleans Community Print Shop (1201 Mazant Street). A panel talk, facilitated by Kiernan Dunn, features Devin O. Saurus, Tela Love, Colin Roberson, and the Queer Cartography project. Kiernan Dunn is a member if the New Orleans … Queerspective: Past, Present, and Future
Tomas Moniz presents RAD Families: A Celebration at 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 23, at Rank & File Books (5206 Magazine Street). Join Editor Tomas Moniz and local rad writers Hope Gutwrench, musician Nomi!, and more TBA for an engaging hour at Rank & File Books. RAD Families: A Celebration honors the messy, the painful, … RAD Families and Friends: Book Release and Social Hour
Darling Fitch presents A Stranger Sound at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 14, at the Mudlark Public Theatre (1200 Port Street). Arising from Berlin’s queer party scene, A Stranger Sound is a dark yet affirming transgender coming-of-age story. Through music and poetry, the show leads audiences to journey through “gender dysphoria and chemical ecstasy / … Darling Fitch plus Cat Child
Join Jeff’s book club for a discussion of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19, at Bakery Bar (1179 Annunciation Street).
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museums door’s for live music, movies, children’s activities and more, at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 7, at the New Orleans Museum of Art (1 Collins Diboll Cir). The schedule is as follows: 5 – 8 p.m. Art on the Spot 5 – 7 p.m. Edible Book Day presentations … Friday Nights at NOMA: Great Houses of Havana Lecture
To Literally You Paul Killebrew Canarium Books, 2017 Space, Henri Lefebvre writes in The Production of Space, is “a whole set of errors, a complex of illusions, which can even cause us to forget completely that there is a total subject which acts continually to maintain and reproduce its own conditions of existence.” Lefebvre cautions … Parsing the Relationship Between Sensibility and Memory: A review of Paul Killebrew’s TO LITERALLY YOU
Sigma Tau Delta hosts an open mic poetry night at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, at Satchmo’s Lounge (Loyola University New Orleans). Come by and read your work or listen and support your peers. If you would like to reserve your reading slot, sign up here: http://doodle.com/poll/3df6t83rfwucsxvq
