riverferrals

ongoing reading series across la to attend (note others in lynx):
_work-in-progress_will update
during this bout of  onchocerciasis,
the river refers you to:

baton rouge 

highland reading series
highland coffees
thursday 7pm

readers & writers
lsu
contact: brannon costello

soul'd out sundays
gallery bohemia 
sunday 7pm
contact: donney rose

the underpass
chelsea's cafe
contacts: emily nemens and julie carey

grand coteau

casa azul gifts
thursday 7pm
contact: patrice melnick

new orleans

bayou readings
contacts: uno

cold cuts
kajun's
contacts: jenn nunes and mel coyle

the diane tapes
maple street books
contacts: ben kopel and anne marie rooney

maple leaf poetry series
maple leaf bar
sundays 3pm
contact

the poetry brothel
contact: jordan soyka

poetry buffet
milton h. latter public library
contact: gina ferrara

17 poets!
gold mine saloon
contacts: dave brinks and megan burns

1718 and walker percy readings
columns hotel

lafayette

gaines center reading series
contact: marthe reed

hothouse (laf-br)

I also recently found this great blog about NOLA literary events and releases: Press Street

dam(n) that river

dam that river

au revoir river:
this tuesday (4.9.13) we damming the river
with a monster la book release: burns and evans

river writers wasn't ever a regular reading series
and it will continue to never be--
this dam(n) diverts the river into other la distributaries

when the river swelled, it was needed; now 
la has an almost daily storm of strong reading series     

the river temporarily reverses her flow
searching for a more direct route to the gulf

vincent
4.3.13

*I want to express extreme gratitude for all riverers, riverttendees,
and stewards, especially john david harding and christopher shipman;
boudreaux & thibodeaux's bartenders, brennan bayham, and ms. karen thank you too
there is more fun to be had but we've had more than our river share--

Featuring Poet Brett Evans reading and signing his new collection from Trembling Pillow Press: I Love This American Life as well as Megan Burns reading and signing her new collection from Lavender Ink: Sound and Basin. Also River Writers series instigator Vincent Cellucci will read and wax nostalgic about the life of the River Writers Series. 
Bios: 

Brett Evans’ work has been featured in the anthologies The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry, Another South: Experimental Writing in the South, and Poets for Living Waters. Other books of the author include Slosh Models, Ready-to-Eat Individual (with Frank Sherlock), and AfterSchool Session, as well as the chapbooks Ways to Use Lance and Pisa Can. He is a founding member of the carnival microkrewe ‘tit-R∂x, New Orleans’ only shoebox parade, for which his “schwa solution” extracted the krewe from legal wrangles with Rex, the king of carnival. He lives on the lee of the Bayou St. John levee in New Orleans, LA.

Megan Burns is the publisher at Trembling Pillow Press and edits the poetry magazine, Solid Quarter. She has two books Memorial + Sight Lines (2008) and Sound and Basin (2013) published by Lavender Ink. She has two recent chapbooks: irrational knowledge (Fell Swoop press, 2012) and a city/ bottle boned (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her chapbook Dollbaby is forthcoming from Horseless Press. She lives in New Orleans where she and poet Dave Brinks, run the weekly 17 Poets! Literary and Performance Series. (www.17poets.com). 

Vincent A. Cellucci wrote An Easy Place / To Die (CityLit, Baltimore) and he is the founder of River Writers, a downtown Baton Rouge reading series. He recently edited Fuck Poems an exceptional anthology published by Lavender Ink (2013). 

Ear to the Wall: Causey / Gorman / Grammer 3.26.13

Join us to celebrate the work of three local poets & the release of Carrie Causey's chapbook Ear to the Wall, released by Ampersand Books.

Carrie Causey is the author of the chapbook, Ear to the Wall, newly released from Ampersand Books. She has appeared in Plume, Ploughshares, and Sycamore Review and was named First Runner-Up for the 2011 Wabash Prize for Poetry. She is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she teaches Literature, Composition, and Humanities at Baton Rouge Community College. Currently, she is working on a full-length collection.

Taylor Gorman is an alumnus of LSU’s Creative Writing program and now works for the Baton Rouge library as a troubadour, where he drives to daycares and plays guitar for children and reads them books. He is an also award winning brewer of beer. However, he is most famously known for having written the original lyrics to John Cage’s 4’33, was Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2006, is Manti Teo’s current girlfriend, and from 1998 to 2013 was Banksy. Currently he just got accepted into the MFA program at Wichita., which is pretty exciting. Minus maybe "living in Wichita" think but he'll get over it.

Dan Grammer writes fiction about rootlessness, restlessness, and the squaring of personal debts. His poetry deals with language as a translation - an agent of constant miscommunication. Published locally in Dig Magazine, smoking glue gun, and delta, his work is forthcoming in if&when and Plain China.

This event is FREE and open to public. The reading begins at 8 PM at Boudreaux & Thibodeaux's bar, 214 3rd St. in Baton Rouge, LA.

Medina/Harris/Avila River 03.12.13

 Special time: 7 PM

Poet Tony Medina has been hailed as “one of the top ten writers to watch in the new millennium,” and his dynamic energy on-and-off the page has garnered him internat
ional attention. New Orleans-based poet Kelly Harris and LSU MFA candidate, Jesus “Chuy” Avila. This event is free and open to the public.

Tony Medina is the award-winning author and editor of over seventeen books for adults and young readers, including I and I, Bob Marley and My Old Man Was Always on the Lam. His poetry, fiction and essays are featured in over forty anthologies. Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University, he is a two-time winner of the Paterson Prize. Medina’s latest books include Broke on Ice, An Onion of Wars and The President Looks Like Me.

Kelly Harris earned an MFA from Lesley University. She is a fellow of Cave Canem, the Fine Arts Work Center and is a winner of Cleveland’s Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artists Award. Her poems have appeared in: Say It Loud: Poems for James Brown, Caduceus, PMS, The Southern Women's Review, PLUCK and DrumVoices Revue. Kelly created Poems & Pink Ribbons, a breast-cancer-themed poetry workshop and is completing her poetry manuscript, Revival.

fuck poems wet brunch reading @ awp 2013, boston

March 9th

Lir  11:30am – 2:30pm EST
903 Boylston St, Boston, Massachusetts 02115   QR code on pg. 3.*Top Floor* Please share this event with friends for fellowship.
No cover: there’s an international soccer match downstairs they are charging one for so tell bouncer you with reading upstairs.
cash bar and food available
listed on the site and everyTHANG
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FUCK poems and John Sinclair at 17 Poets! Reading Series in New Orleans

Dear Hepcats,

An indomitable feast of WORD & Song awaits your dear company! Thursday, February 14 @ 7:30 p.m. will be 17 Poets! Literary & Performance Series' inaugural show for the 2013 season at Gold Mine Saloon, celebrating 10 years (2003-2013) of experimental, hardcore reverie & l'amour fou via Poetry, Music, Theater and Art in New Orleans! Anniversary for 17 Poets! Literary & Performance Series' New Orleans cultural arts. Party & performance is free admission. I extend my chest-deep gratitude to everyone in honor of ten years of fierce poetic spirit and amazing support!

Peace, Strength & Truth thru Poetry, Always

Dave Brinks

when: Thursday, February 14, 2013 @ 7:30 p.m.

where: Gold Mine Saloon, 701 Dauphine Street, French Quarter

contact: New Orleans, 504.586.0745, www.17poets.com

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Please join us February 14th, for the return of 17 Poets! celebrating 10 years of hosting poetry in the French Quarter. Our spring 2013 season begins with an anthology reading from Lavender Ink's new collection, FUCK poems, edited by Vincent Cellucci. Also, John Sinclair will perform his annual post-Mardi Gras show. As always, the open mic awaits and is our main attraction. So join us and read with us www.17poets.com, Gold Mine Saloon, 701 Dauphine St.

Fuck Poems informs the carnal and vulgate with the poetic and creative agency they were born from, insisting that the art is as vital as procreation. In the tradition of Sappho and Catullus, Henry Miller and Anais Nin, yet relentlessly contemporary, this collection will titillate and infuriate, arouse and denounce, appropriating the inappropriate until the normal dissipates. Edited by Vincent Cellucci, readings by Megan Burns, Mel Coyle, Jenn Marie Nunes, Christopher Shipman, and Jordan Soyka. 

Plus special guest: poet, dancer, songwriter & vocalist KATARINA BOUDREAUX.

John Sinclair performs his annual post-Mardi Gras show at 17 Poets! His latest collection Song of Praise Homage to John Coltrane is out from Trembling Pillow Press. Visit his blog: http://www.johnsinclair.us/ to follow his busy schedule.