The Dogfish Reading Series presents Sherrie Flick at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 26, at Dogfish headquarters (2448 N. Villere St). The open mic will begin at 8:30 pm. The event is free and open to the public. Sherrie Flick is a fiction writer, food writer, and freelance writer and copy editor living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her … Dogfish presents Sherrie Flick
The Poetry Buffet will host Darrell Bourque and Julie Kane on Saturday, October 1, at 2 p.m. at the Latter Library (5120 St. Charles). Darrell Bourque grew up in a rural community near Sunset, Louisiana. He graduated from USL and then received a master’s and a Ph.D. in creative writing from Florida State University. He is Professor Emeritus in English … The Poetry Buffet with Darrell Bourque and Julie Kane
NOCCA will present for the sixth year straight a group of esteemed writers from around the globe, in partnership with the University of Iowa’s International Writers Program. This year’s reading will feature Ko Hua Chen (Taiwan), Courtney Sina Meredith (New Zealand), Ukamaka Olisakwe (Nigeria), Shenaz Patel (Mauritius), Vladimir Poleganov (Bulgaria), and Zhou Jianing (China). The event will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October … NOCCA presents An Evening with the University of Iowa’s International Writers Program
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
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
Team Slam New Orleans will celebrate National Poetry Month with a Youth Poetry Showcase and Adult Cash Slam on Sunday, April 3, from 1 – 4 p.m. at the New Orleans Museum of Art (1 Collins Diboll Cir.). The Youth Showcase will take place from 1 – 2:30 p.m. Those interested in participating can find more … Team Slam New Orleans celebrates National Poetry Month on April 3
Eduardo C. Corral will give a reading at Tulane University at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, at Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center, room 205 (6832 St. Charles Ave.). This event is sponsored by the Poetry Society of America and Tulane University. Admission is free. After the reading, Corral will sit for questions with Peter Cooley, who … Eduardo C. Corral reads at Tulane on March 15
Rickey Laurentiis was named one of the top ten debut poets of 2015 by Poets & Writers Magazine and one of 31 contemporary poets to read by Buzzfeed. His poems have appeared in several journals, including Boston Review, Callaloo, Feminist Studies, Fence, Indiana Review, jubilat, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, Oxford American and Poetry. Born and raised in … We need to be able to see each others’ wounds: An interview with Rickey Laurentiis
Poet Rickey Laurentiis will give the keynote reading for the 9th annual New Orleans New Writers Literary Festival at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts’ (2800 Chartres St.). Laurentiis is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2012 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry … Rickey Laurentiis to headline the New Orleans New Writers 2016 LitFest March 12 and give a reading at NOCCA March 10
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.