The New Orleans Museum of Music and Cultural Arts will host Dr. Jerry Ward at 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 3, at their 124 Baronne Street location, which is adjacent to Crescent City Books. Ward will read from and sign his new book of poems, Fractal Song. Reception at 6 p.m. Event begins at 6:30. By special request, Dave Brinks will open. Jerry … Jerry Ward book release: Fractal Song
Garden District Book Shop will host Rick Barton and Joanne Leake at 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 3, at their storefront (2727 Prytania Street). The two will sign copies of Monday Nights: Stories from the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. For the last twenty-five years, the fiction writers in the MFA program at the University of … Rick Barton and Joanne Leake Booksigning
LadyFest Lit will host a reading with a variety of local authors at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 2, at the Dogfish Reading Series Headquarters (2448 N. Villere Street). The reading, which will be hosted by Megan Burns, will feature Chin Sun Lee, Amanda Emily Smith, Maddy Levy, Deb Jannerson, MaeDea Lady La Rose, Diana Shortez, Gina Ferrara, Andrea Young, Jessica Kinneson, Roxy Seay, Nancy Dixon, Whitney Mackman, Monica Mankin, Phyllis Parun, Stacey Balkun,and Valentine Pierce. … LadyFest Lit 2016: Wednesday Night
LadyFest Lit will host Rain Prud’homme-Cranford at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1, at Material Life (6038 St. Claude). This is the first event in the annual Lady Fest Literary Reading Series. LadyFest Lit is partnering with Miz Carla Williams, proprietor of Material Life boutique and gallery, for an intimate evening with Miz Rain Prud’homme-Cranford. Refreshments & drinks will be served. Miz … LadyFest Lit presents: Rain Prud’homme-Cranford
The Norman Mayer Branch Library will host Daniel José Older at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1, at the Mayer library (3001 Gentilly Boulevard). The Mayer library welcomes Daniel José Older for a Q&A with Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy of the local group Wildseeds: The New Orleans Octavia Butler Emergent Strategy Collective, a network of feminists of color who use speculative fiction and … Daniel José Older: Bone Street Booktalk
Room 220 presents a reading from Lara Naughton and Justin Nobel at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 27, at Antenna Gallery (3718 St. Claude Ave.). Naughton will read from her debut memoir The Jaguar Man. Nobel will read from his forthcoming book, The Story of Dan Bright. Lara Naughton is a New Orleans-based documentary playwright, memoirist, and writing instructor. With … Room 220 presents Lara Naughton and Justin Nobel
The Crescent Chamber Artists will host Vox Feminis: A Celebration of Women Poets at 8 p.m. on Thursday, October 20, at the Marigny Opera House (725 St. Ferdinand). The event will offer a musical exploration of women’s poetry, featuring artists Katherine McClain, Kay Sherwood White, and RuthAnn Chadwick, accompanied by Raymond Kit Loong Yee. Free … Vox Feminis: A Celebration of Women Poets
Jonathan Penton, Rania Zada, and Xander Bilyk will read at Material Life (6038 St. Claude) at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 25. The reading is a celebration of the release of Standards of Sadiddy, a book of poems by Jonathan Penton published by Lit Fest Press. New Orleans poets Xander Bilyk and Penton will read alongside … Jonathan Penton, Rania Zada, and Xander Bilyk read at Material Life
The Conversation Literary Festival will take place in New Orleans from October 20th – October 22nd for a series of conversations all geared to answer the question: Can a Black Mecca exist in the American South? The festival’s aim is to place literary conversations in the living room, to remove the conference hall and give back to … The Conversation Literary Festival
Room 220 presents a reading from Nicholas Mainieri at 7 p.m. on Thursday, December 15, at Antenna Gallery (3718 St. Claude Ave.). Mainieri will read from his novel The Infinite. Born in Miami, Florida, in 1983, Nicholas Mainieri has also lived in Colorado and Indiana. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame, he earned his MFA from the University of … Room 220 presents Nick Mainieri
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.