Kiese Laymon in conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin discussing his book, Heavy: An American Memoir. Thursday, October 18, 2018, 6-7:30 PM. Garden District Book Shop, 2727 Prytania St. Kiese will sign books after the discussion. A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, … Kiese Laymon in Conversation with Maurice Ruffin
Join us Wednesday, October 10th as we venture into the genre of Essay for one night only this season with Tracey Anne Duncan and Kristina Kay Robinson. Open mic follows feature Doors and Sign up at 7:30, Reading at 8:00 Open Mic hosted by Todd Cirillo BYOB Bios: Tracey Duncan mostly writes status updates, but … Essay Night with Tracy Anne Duncan and Kristina Kay Robinson
Dogfish presents authors Rita Bullwinkel and Maurice at 7 pm on Thursday, October 25, at 2448 N. Villere. RITA BULLWINKEL’s writing has been published in Tin House, Conjunctions, Vice, NOON, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been … Dogfish Presents: Rita Bullwinkel and Maurice Carlos Ruffin
The New Orleans Center For The Gulf South presents The 7th Annual Sylvia Frey Lecture: Be About Beauty: Kalamu ya Salaam. 7:00 pm, September 26 at Tulane University, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, 6823 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118 (auditorium: 7018-7098 Plum St, New Orleans, LA 70118). New Orleans Center for the Gulf … New Orleans Center For The Gulf South: Be About Beauty: Kalamu ya Salam
Dogfish presents authors Nancy Reddy and April Blevins at 7 pm on Thursday, September 20, at 2448 N. Villere. NANCY REDDY is the author of Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series, and the chapbook Acadiana (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, … Dogfish Presents: Nancy Reddy and April Blevins Pejic
RM220 and The Waves Reading Series are proud to present Donna Masini and Megan McHugh for an evening of reading and spirits at Antenna Gallery, 3718 Saint Claude Ave, October 5th, 7-9pm. Donna Masini was born in Brooklyn and has always lived in NYC. Her latest collection of poems, 4:30 Movie, an elegy for her … RM220 and The Waves Presents: Donna Masini and Megan McHugh
The Académie Gnostique will host The Story of Stories: The Practical Magic of Fairy Tales at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 2, at 126 Baronne Street. The suggested donation is $10, and refreshments will be served in the lobby. The event is the first of a three part investigation into the classification, origins, and magical application of … The Story of Stories: The Practical Magic of Fairy Tales
Nordette Adams, Clare Harmon, and Cassie Pruyn will read at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 1, at Latter Library (5120 St. Charles Avenue).
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
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.