Poet Amy Trussell visits the Maple Leaf for her first New Orleans reading since 2008. Author of The Meteorite Dealers, Painted Tongue Flowers, Amy is also co-author of Ungulations: Ten Waves (Under the Hoof) on Surregional Press, and Old Devil Lee with Andy di Michele. Free. Three pm “New Orleans time.” With Dennis Formento opening. … Amy Trussell at the Maple Leaf
Maple Leaf Bar hosts Molly Kirschner at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 21, at 8316 Oak Street. Kirschner will be reading from Notes for Further Research. Notes for Further Research is a step back (in terms of certainty) from Kirschner’s first book Hard Proof. It explores atheism, God, and free will with equal parts of humor, sincerity, … Molly Kirschner at Maple Leaf Bar
Maple Leaf Bar hosts Jonathan Penton and Xander Bilyk at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 9, at 8316 Oak Street. This reading is free and open to the public. Jonathan Penton founded UnlikelyStories.org in 1998. His own poetry chapbooks include Last Chap (Vergin’ Press, 2004), Blood and Salsa and Painting Rust (Unlikely Books, 2006), Prosthetic Gods (New Sins Press, 2008) … Jonathan Penton & Xander Bilyk read at the Maple Leaf
Maple Leaf Bar will host the book release for Gina Ferrara’s Fitting the Sixth Finger at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 28, at 8316 Oak Street.
Contributors to a new anthology celebrating the Maple Leaf Reading Series will read at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 4, at the Milton H. Latter Branch of the New Orleans Public Library.
Stay online long enough, and you’re bound to end up in a listicle. It really came as no surprise to the folks at Room 220 that our events ended up this week on Buzzfeed’s list of the Top Ten Places to Get Literary and Drunk in New Orleans, put together by the folks at the … Room 220 events ranked the 10th best places to get drunk with dorks in New Orleans
