all souls reading

cull your favorite dead poets
open mic dead party
bring your bones

highland river combo thursday (10.21)

Oct. 21 7pm at Highland Coffees (3350 Highland Road)
Highland Reading Series and River Writers Combo Reading
readings by:

Cara Blue Adams (Managing Editor of The Southern Review)
Mel Coyle (LSU MFA)
Ava Haymon (local poet published by LSU Press)

(volume on videos low; turn way up)

augustus river

insisting the river exudes youth and vital in the midst of violence

highland reading series guest
readers and freestylists:

ben cockfield

robert frank

layth sihan

Red Stick Writers Tell 100 Stories

A few dozen Red Stick Writers read sudden fiction, narrative poems, brief memoirs, excerpts...and it all adds up to exactly 100 stories. Generously hosted by the Southern Review.


Friday, October 8 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Old President's House, LSU (at Highland and Raphael Semmes)

river is yours

9.28.10

benjamin haas
(finally a full river performance)

sam oliver
(a reading from baton rouge's most omnipresent literature supporter and aficionado)

angus woodward
(br writer whose collection is titled "down at the end of the river")

Two nights of Creole Arabesque & Transylvanian-Moldavian Fascination
Wednesday, September 22, 8:00 p.m.
GOLD MINE SALOON, NOLA

featuring guest writers & poets Ruxandra Cesereanu, Lucian Dan Teodorovici, Bogdan Odagescu, Marius Conkan, Bill Lavender, R. Moose Jackson, James Nolan and DeWitt Brinson

EVENT PROLOGUE: Sheherezade, the medieval storyteller, told stories for 1001 nights in order to save her life from the cruel sultan Sharyar, who married a virgin every night and had her killed next morning. Only Sheherezade’s stories could stop him from his murderous insanity. The 1001 Nights Storytelling Festival and its participants are out to prove that the 21st century is the new Oral Century. They believe that New Orleans and Transylvania are the places where Sheherezade 2 is going to offer a new model for survival through storytelling. The events will center entirely on the human voice and imagination.

The Transylvanians will unveil sequels to the 1001 Nights in English translation, some of them interpreted by New Orleans actors, surprise musicians and dancers, while the New Orleanians will unveil accounts of unmerciful fabulosity.

Also featured in this festival — A meeting of Two-Continent Imaginations: Corin Braga, founder of The Center For Imagination Studies from Cluj, Transylvania, and Confessor Emeritus of Abomination and founder of The New Orleans School for the Imagination Dave Brinks joined by collaborateurs Andrei Codrescu and Bill Lavender.

text taken from: http://nola.humidbeings.com/events/detail/3881/1001-NIGHTS-NEW-ORLEANS-STORYTELLING-FESTIVAL-2010-09-22