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
The Waves, a quarterly LGBTQ reading series, will present Jonathan Penton, Alison Barker, Gabrielle Douglas, and more at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 13, at Antenna Gallery (3718 St. Claude Ave.). The series features local and visiting writers alongside emerging and student voices to encompass a multigenerational LGBTQ perspective. The Waves is also accepting submissions from writers interested … THE WAVES presents Jonathan Penton, Alison Barker, Gabrielle Douglas, and more
The Maple Street Book Shop will meet to discuss Rainer Maira Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 13, at the Maple Street Book Shop (7529 Maple Street). This month, Morgan Babst will be the guest facilitator, and she’s picked Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids. The book club choice is available at 10% off at the store. Refreshments will be … Maple Street Book Club focuses on The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge with Morgan Babst
The launch for the second book in Michael Allen Zell’s Bobby Delery Series, Law and Desire, will take place at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 4, at Garden District Book Shop (2727 Prytania Street). Christopher Romaguera will also read with Zell. In Law & Desire, Zell continues to peel back the mean streets of New Orleans. … Michael Allen Zell’s Law & Desire Book Release with Christopher Romaguera
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
Freeman’s Own: A Writer’s Talk Series has two events in New Orleans this week. The first will be the New Orleans launch of the Best New Writing on Family anthology at 6 p.m. on September 29, at the Ashé Contemporary Arts Center (1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd). The panel and book signing will feature editor John Freeman, … Freeman’s Own: A Writer’s Talk Series hosts events Thursday and Friday
Maple Street Bookshop will host Nicole M.K. Eiden and Alison Pelegrin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, August 10, at their uptown storefront (7529 Maple Street). Eiden will be celebrating the launch of her book I Am One of You, and Pelegrin will read from her new book Waterlines. Kirkus Reviews described Eiden’s collection as “[m]oving poetry that kindly … Maple Street Book Shop Hosts Nicole Eiden and Alison Pelegrin on Wednesday
Adrian Van Young will celebrate the launch of his latest book, Shadows in Summerland, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, at Maple Street Book Shop (7529 Maple St.). The novel begins in Boston in 1859, as the nation is on the brink of war. Roughly based on the real-life story of William H. Mumler, … Adrian Van Young launches new novel at Maple Street Books on April 21
Room 220 will host the New Orleans launch of Carolyn Hembree’s Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, a collection of her poetry published by Trio House Press. The book won the 2015 Trio Award, selected by Neil Shepard, and the 2015 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, selected by Stephanie … The asking is never idle: A review of Carolyn Hembree’s Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague
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.