In coordination with the New Orleans Poetry Festival, Small Press Fair will be a two day event, beginning at 10 a.m. on April 21, at the New Orleans Healing Center (2372 St. Claude Avenue). Small Press Fair will feature some of the top small presses publishing poetry and translation in the United States, including Lavender Ink/Dialogos, … Small Press Fair at New Orleans Healing Center
Blood Jet Poetry Series hosts Dylan Krieger and Elizabeth Hall at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, at BJ’s in the Bywater (4301 Burgundy). Dylan Krueger works as a magazine editor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she recently earned her MFA in poetry and co-directed the annual Delta Mouth Literary Festival. Her first book, Giving Godhead, … Blood Jet Poetry Series presents Dylan Krieger and Elizabeth Hall
The Blood Jet Poetry Series presents Clare Welsh and Todd Cirillo at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29, at BJ’s in the Bywater (4301 Burgundy). Clare Welsh is a native of Pennsylvania. She has published poems, stories and photographs in McSweeny’s, Nailed Magazine, The Susquehanna Review, Salt, Viator, and other places in print and online. She … Blood Jet Poetry Series presents Clare Welsh and Todd Cirillo
The Blood Jet Poetry Series will host John Pluecker and Monica Mankin on Wednesday, November 30, at 8 p.m. at B.J.’s (4301 Burgundy). John Pluecker is a writer, interpreter, translator and co-founder of the language justice and literary experimentation collaborative Antena. His work is informed by experimental poetics, radical aesthetics and cross-border cultural production. His texts have appeared … Blood Jet Poetry presents John Pluecker and Monica Mankin
The Blood Jet Poetry Series will host Peyton Burgess and Alison Barker for their Fiction Night on Wednesday, November 16, at 8 p.m. at B.J.’s (4301 Burgundy). Peyton Burgess lives with his wife and son in New Orleans where he teaches composition and creative writing at Loyola and works in the Monroe Library. He is the author … Blood Jet Fiction Night with Peyton Burgess and Alison Barker
The Blood Jet Poetry Series will host Jonathan Penton and Chris The Journey James on Wednesday, October 5, at 7 p.m. at B.J.’s (4301 Burgundy). In 1998, Jonathan Penton founded UnlikelyStories.org. Since then, he has lent editorial and management assistance to a number of literary and artistic ventures, such as MadHat, Inc. and Big Bridge. He has … Blood Jet presents Jonathan Penton and Chris The Journey James
The Blood Jet Poetry Series will host Kristina Kay Robinson and Bill Loehfelm for fiction night on Wednesday, October 12, at 7 p.m. at B.J.’s (4301 Burgundy). Tom Andes will host. Kristina Kay Robinson is a writer and visual artist born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her written and visual work centers the intellectual geographies and … Blood Jet presents Fiction Night with Kristina Kay Robinson and Bill Loehfelm
The Blood Jet Poetry Series will host Christopher Romaguera, Nick Fox, and Glen Shaheen on Wednesday, October 19, at 7 p.m. at B.J.’s (4301 Burgundy). Christopher Louis Romaguera is a Cuban-American writer who was born in Miami, Florida. Chris attended Florida International University, receiving a Bachelor’s degree in English and Philosophy in 2010. After graduating, he moved to … Blood Jet presents Christopher Romaguera, Nick Fox, and Glenn Shaheen
The Blood Jet Poetry Series will host Tracey McTague, Brett Evans, and others on Wednesday, October 26, at 7 p.m. at B.J.’s (4301 Burgundy). Tracey McTague lives up on Battle Hill in Brooklyn, down the street from where she was born and across the room from where her daughter was born. She is the ornithologist consigliere for Lungfull! Magazine by … Blood Jet Poetry Series presents Tracey McTague, Brett Evans, and others
Poets Bill Lavender and Addie Citchens headline the Blood Jet Poetry Series’ final reading of their spring season this Wednesday, June 8, at BJ’s in the Bywater (4301 Burgundy). Bill Lavender is the founder and proprietor of Lavender Ink / Diálogos and co-founder, with Megan Burns, of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. His most recent … Final Blood Jet Poetry Series reading of spring to be held June 8 at BJ’s
