Ampersand Books Reading

*river burst*
in conjunction with egsa (thanks to susan kirby-smith & dave for hooking up venue)

note: reading's at chelsea's (small bar) at 9pm (11.10)

Ampersand Books' editor Jason Cook is in town
up from the New Orleans Book Fair and requested a river--

locals Penelope Dane, Ben Lowenkron, & Bobbi Parry joining him

riverember

huge month for river
three back to back readings--

this river:

boz, river returnee pathogen free
ben, back with the surreal
amanda, a new river to welcome
and j.t. , bold river regular

dia de los muertos

all dear,

tonight at red star is hunter's 4th annual day of the dead party
art music and even a surprise river-- (music starts at 10pm)
fun with mescal, tequila, and skeletons

p.s. river writers exploding this month with three straight readings...more after halloween weekend

triverck or trivereat tonight

october,

tonight we have some trivercks ands some trivereats

back to back beautiful fiction readings from

boz bowles (boz rescheduled)
and
randolph thomas



and special apparition readings from

emily dickinson
and
dorothy parker

river (per) cussions

shippy last night at old barracks impromptu

GULF COAST POETRY TOUR

Bringing together poets from Alabama, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Mobile.

Houston event is at Rudyard's British Pub (8pm). 5 dollar cover.

Baton Rouge event is Wednesday Oct. 7 at Teddy’s Juke Joint (8pm). 5 dollar cover. For a massive reading party and throw down with a live band, The Sharecroppers, and a kitchen stocked with catfish, hot wings, gumbo, and the infamous pork chop sandwiches.

Loyola University Readings and Goldmine Readings the next day (Oct. 8) in New Orleans. Loyola Reading will be in Mercy Hall at 2pm and Goldmine, Dave Brink's establishment starts at 8pm and consists of featured readers Bill Berkson and Simon Pettet with open mic to follow.

Mobile events are downtown at the ArtWalk (6pm) and Serda's coffee shop (9pm until).

Interested readers contact Vincent at theexceptionalist@gmail.com

river now delivers

river romps with:

Maureen Foley, who received her MFA from Naropa, holla!!

Anna Hurst happy to have for her first river

Ben Pelhan, firstyear's chinese water torture in the river

Kristin Sanders, an essential rivergoer

realva please

celebrating with the founders:

Vincent A. Cellucci
Eric Elliott
Ben Lowenkron
Rebecca Gammons
Chris Shipman


reminder about call for submissions: see august post

Rivermorrow

all dear,

introducing carrie

dr. cooper droppin

james with some fiction

and of course the lovely jenn

rivermorrow
if u have
to ask
u'll never
know/ S O M E

severely,
Nobody

call for submissions

all dear,

river writers is officially calling for submissions
for digital broadsides for the unveiling of it's
Taaka Tranny Translations Series.

what do we meant as digital broadsides?
take a moment to scroll down to the Exceptionalist Manifestos
or like our readers' posters, except with poems.

these digital broadsides will be uploaded to our site
& released to the author for personal posting & use.

Single poems will be published. Send a batch of your best.
No filibusters.

any kind of personal artwork or images that the poet
would like paired with the piece, send as attachments

send all materials as email attachments (doc and jpeg) to: theexceptionalist@gmail.com