Join the Blood Jet Poetry Series for a reading and signing of works by three poets. This event also features as a release for Jessica Fiorini’s new collection, Make It Rain. The event will be held at 6p.m. on Wednesday, March 22, at BJ’s in the Bywater (4301 Burgundy). Jessica Fiorini is the author of … Blood Jet Poetry Series: Jessica Fiorini, Prairie M. Faul, Elle Magnuson
The Dogfish Reading Series presents Ed Skoog and Marc Nieson at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 16, at Dogfish headquarters (2448 N. Villere St). The event is free and open to the public. Ed Skoog is the author of three books of poems: Mister Skylight, Rough Day (winner of the Washington State Book Award), and the forthcoming … Dogfish Presents: Ed Skoog and Marc Nieson
Since 1986, the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, coinciding with his birthday, has celebrated the playwright’s legacy and the city he made his home. From March 22 to March 26, multiple New Orleans locations will host incredible speakers, contests, and events. This year’s speakers include Rick Bragg, Bryan Batt, Wally Lamb, Bev Marshall, John S. Bak, … Tennessee Williams Literary Festival 2017
Friends of the Jefferson Public Library takes over Kenner’s Pontchartrain Center for its semi-annual sale of over 60,000 used books, puzzles, DVDs, CDs, vinyl LPs and more. All proceeds benefit the Jefferson Public Library. Free admission and parking. Credit cards accepted. Pontchartrain Center 4545 Williams Blvd. Kenner, LA Thursday-Saturday, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Sunday, … Friends of Jefferson Public Library’s Big Book Sale
Maple Street Book Shop hosts Melissa Dickey and Andy Stallings at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14, at their uptown storefront (7529 Maple Street). Both authors will read from and sign copies of their books. Melissa Dickey is the author of Dragons (2016) and The Lily Will (2011), both published by Rescue Press. Her poems … Melissa Dickey and Andy Stallings at Maple Street Book Shop
A roundtable discussing Beyoncé’s Lemonade will take place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8, at Rogers Memorial Chapel on Tulane’s Uptown Campus. Is Lemonade a work of Black feminism? How do we interpret its mix of musical genres, social commentary, and autobiography – all centered on women of color? And what role does the Deep … Making Lemonade-Race, Gender & the Deep South in Beyoncé’s Lemonade
The Poetry Buffet will host Bill Lavender, Biljana Obradovic, and Randolph Thomas on Saturday, March 4, at 2 p.m. at the Latter Library (5120 St. Charles).
**Please Note Change of Date!** Tuesday, April 4, 6:30-9pm Antenna, 3718 St. Claude THEME #1 of Antenna’s Antifascist Reading Group is State Surveillance and Community Security, featuring a discussion of the tools, tactics, reach and implications of broad-sweeping surveillance through the lens of fiction and non-fiction. Antenna is pleased to announce that Professor Bill Quigley, … Antifascist Reading Group:<br />SURVEILLANCE
ROOM 220 hosts the book launch for Jami Attenberg’s All Grown Up at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, at Saturn Bar (3067 St. Claude Avenue). Zachary Lazar will interview Attenberg after the reading. Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, books, television, and urban life for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Lenny Letter … ROOM 220 presents Jami Attenberg
Meg Wolitzer will appear at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 6, at Tulane University’s Lavin-Bernick Center. Wolitzer is this year’s Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence. Wolitzer’s novels include THE INTERESTINGS; THE UNCOUPLING; THE TEN-YEAR NAP; THE POSITION; and THE WIFE. She is also the author of a novel for middle-grade readers, THE FINGERTIPS OF DUNCAN DORFMAN, and a novel … A Reading and Interview with Meg Wolitzer
What should Antenna carry forward? What can evolve? What does our creative ecology need from Antenna now & what pathways can we build together to get there?
This October, Antenna invites artists, writers, culture bearers, cultural workers, neighbors, partners, and audiences to join a series of Critical Response Process (CRP) sessions around our emerging Values + Pathways Framework.