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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

river highland combo presents pelegrin



Highland Coffees, Thursday, February 17 • 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Alison Pelegrin
Alison is the author of "Big Muddy River of Stars," winner of the Akron Poetry Prize; as well as "The Zydeco Tablets"; and three prize-winning chapbooks, most recently Voodoo Lips and Squeezers. Individual poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily and The Writer's Almanac. She ...earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas, and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Her profile on the NEA website is here:http://www.nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_23

Vincent Cellucci
Vince is the author of "An Easy Place/To Die," newly out from CityLit. His poetry and reviews have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, the New Orleans Review, and moira. He received his MFA in Poetry from LSU and runs River Writers, another Baton Rouge reading series.

Lindsey Hopton
Lindsey has published poems in Cresent City Review and has work forthcoming in Delta Journal. She is a creative writing student at LSU and an employee of Highland Coffees.

Michael Glaviano
Michael is the author of the split letterpress chapbook "Careful/The People Collider" from Violet Hour Press with Tommy Jacobi. He is an undergraduate at LSU, and His poems have appeared in Whiskey Island and Strange Machine. He has a tumblr: http://glvno.tumblr.com/


PLUS AN OPEN MIC GUERRILLA READING AT THE GREEK AMPHITHEATRE. BRING SOMETHING TO READ!


If you are interested in reading at the Highland Coffees Reading Series, send a small selection of your work to highlandreading@gmail.com.

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Alison Pelegrin is the author of Big Muddy River of Stars, winner of the Akron Poetry Prize; as well as The Zydeco Tablets; and three prize-winning chapbooks, most recently Voodoo Lips and Squeezers. Individual poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily and The Writer's Almanac. She earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas, and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Presently teaching English at Southeastern Louisiana University, she lives in Mandeville, Louisiana with her husband, Bryan Davidson, and their two young sons, Ben and Sam.







Sunday, February 6, 2011

interminable river




2 superlative river returnees:

carrie causey

anna hurst

and in the stick from new orleans reading from his new and old typewriter vomit:

jason vowell (rescheduled)









Sunday, January 23, 2011

river 20-eleven


starting the new river run
with first time readings from
the following local talents:

jesus avila
maia elgin
corley miller




















Thursday, December 16, 2010

river mates: Vowell & Whitesides will be premiering their new short film “SCANNED.”

Please join us in NOLA.


PRESS RELEASE:


Join local directors Jason Vowell & Wylie Whitesides for night of independent short films Friday December 17th, 2010 at the Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.


Vowell & Whitesides will be premiering their new short film “SCANNED.”(trailer here)


Synopsis:


David Jensen (Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons, The Mist) and Clay Chamberlin (I Love You Phillip Morris) star in this airport security sci-fi drama from New Orleans directors Jason Vowell and Wylie Whitesides.

Computer Engineer Peter Norton (Chamberlin) is on a routine business trip to Cleveland when he is randomly selected by the TSA for a terrorist screening. Things soon begin to spiral out of control as he is interrogated by an inspector (Jensen) intent on proving he is a threat to homeland security,

This timely short film deals with the issues faced by all of us in todays world. How far will the government go to protect us from the threat of terrorism?


*Also screening:


“WHITE OTHER.” Starring Tom Felton (Harry Potter) and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake). Directed by Dan Hartley.


“The Price of Flowers” Directed by local filmmaker Ashley Charbonnet. Starring Lance Nichols and Justin Scalise.


“THE SHED” Directed by Jason Vowell. Starring Chris Welcker and Jason Vowell.


“Cell Phone Psycho” Directed by David S. White. Starring Billy Slaughter and the Noisician Coalition. Winner of the 2010 New Orleans Film Festival. Official Selection of the 2010 Big Easy International Film Festival.


A special sneak peak at the New Orleans Documentary “Murder Through the Eyes of a Child.” Directed by John Richie.


New locally shot and produced music videos from Ben Labat and the Happy Devil, Lovey Dovies, and The Generationals.


Many of the directors and actors will be in attendance.


*These films will be followed by a TSA themed Burlesque act by members of the FLUER DE TEASE burlesque troop.



Monday, November 29, 2010

founderivers


we cordially invite you to join the group that river'd it all:

Vincent A. Cellucci

Eric Elliott

Ben Lowenkron

Christopher Shipman



















Sunday, November 7, 2010

novemberiver


outta oct.--enormous novemberivers

returning, the river requested :

alison barker

and 2 first rivers from local writers:

joey carbo

and

kim vodicka