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New Orleans Poetry Festival
THROUGH-PASSAGE: POETRY IN A PANDEMIC
Saturday, April 15, 2023
9:45-11:00 AM
Street University Stage
Tennessee Williams Festival
THE CROSSROADS OF POETRY: WHERE POET MEETS PLACE
SATURDAY, MARCH 25
2:30 – 3:45—Literary Discussion
Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
$10 or Literary Discussion Pass or VIP Pass.
In her poem “Crossroads,” Sunni Patterson writes, “there is a place / where head meets heart / meets world.” This place is New Orleans; this place is poetry. How do unlikely pairings find each other in poetry? Where does the self meet its surroundings? When does folklore cross self-mythology cross meaning-making? Three Louisiana poets—Sunni Patterson, Karisma Price, and Mona Lisa Saloy—will read from their expansive bodies of work and discuss the intersections of self, place, and history in their verse, with poet Stacey Balkun moderating.
Past Events
Reading: Poetry Performance with Louisiana Poet Laureate Peter Cooley
Wed, April 13, 2016
6:00 PM at Alvar Library
913 Alvar St NOLA 70117
Workshop: Here is Where We Are: The Poetry of Geography & Place
Sat, April 16, 2016
2:00 PM at Arts Estuary
1024 Elysian Fields Ave NOLA 70117
Jackalope-Girl Learns to Speak Book Launch Party!
Fri, May 6, 2016
6:00-8:00 PM at Tubby & Coo's
632 N. Carrolton Ave NOLA 70119
With Wren Hanks, Jade Hurter, Z. W. Mohr, Jessica Morey-Collins, & Chris Romaguera.
Reading: Dogfish presents Stephanie Hepburn and Stacey Balkun
Thurs, May 19, 2016
7:00 PM at Dogfish
2448 N. Villere Street NOLA 70117
Featuring Stephanie Hepburn and Stacey Balkun
Reading: Maple Street Bookshop
Thurs, June 23, 2016
6:00-8:00 PM at Maple Street Books
7523 Maple Street NOLA 70118
Featuring Adam Crittenden, Stacey Balkun, and Sara Slaughter.
Reading Between the Wines
Wed, August 3, 2016
7:00 PM at Pearl Wine Bar
3700 Orleans Avenue, NOLA 70119
10th Annual Western Maryland Independent Lit Festival
October 14-15, 2016
Downtown Frostburg, MD
http://www.frostburg.edu/cla/indie-lit-festival/
Reading: Ladyfest New Orleans
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
2:00-5:00 PM
2448 N. Villere St, New Orleans, LA 70117
Including Gina Ferrara, Andrea Panzeca, Lauren Burgess, The Witness, Anna Young, Sara Jacobelli, Jade Hurter, Laura McKnight, Raina Zelinski, Nancy Harris, Stacey Balkun, Aran Donovan, and Nicole Eiden.
Reading: 2016 Faulker Society Words & Music Festival
Thursday, November 10, 2016
4:00 PM at the Hotel Monteleone's Queen Ann Ballroom
214 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70130
https://wordsandmusic.org/2016-words-music-schedule/
Reading: 2016 FORESTival
Saturday, November 12, 2016
11:00 AM to 5:00 PM at A Studio in the Woods
14301 Patterson Road, New Orleans, LA
Author Signing: Small Business Saturday at Kitchen Witch
Saturday, November 26, 2016
12:00-2:00 PM at Kitchen Witch
1452 N. Broad St, Suite C, New Orleans, LA 70117
Reading: SAFTA Reading Series
Sunday, December 11, 2016
2:00 PM at Bar Marley
760 Stone St NW, Knoxville, TN 37901
Along with featured readers Amie Whittemore and Catherine Moore.
Lost City Museum Chapbook Release Party
Thursday, December 22, 2016
6:00-8:00 PM at Demented Brewery
600 Lincoln Blvd, Middlesex, NJ 08846
AWP: Sundress, Agape, and ELJ Reading
Thurs, Feb 9, 2017
6:00-8:00 PM at Madam's Organ Blues Bar
2461 18th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20009
Readers include Neil Aitken, Sarah Marcus, Natalie Giarratano, Karen Craigo, and Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo. From Agape Editions: Nandini Dhar, Kazim Ali, Stacey Balkun, Jessica Walsh, Nicole Oquendo, Joanna Valente, Janeen Pergrin Rastall, and Chance Castro
AWP: Poetry Barn Storms AWP
Thurs, Feb 9, 2017
10 PM - midnight at Busboys & Poets
5th & K 1025 5th Street NW Washington, DC 20001
Featured readers include Stacey Balkun, Nandini Dhar, Jennifer Givhan, Laura-Gray Street, Cindy Hochman, Alexandra van de Kamp, Heather Knox, Kim Peter Kovac, Karen Neuberg, Soraya Shalforoosh, and Susan Yount. Lissa Kiernan hosts.
The Way of the Poet: Tennessee Williams Festival
Sun, March 26, 2017
2:30 PM at Hotel Monteleone Royal Ballroom
214 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70130
with Bill Lavender, Stacey Balkun, Peter Cooley, Jerry W. Ward Jr., and Rodney Jones.
Mythology of the Mundane: Poetry of Domestic Fabulism
Friday, April 21, 2017
3:30-4:30 at New Orleans Healing Center
2372 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117
Jazz Fest Book Signing
Sat, May 4, 2017
4:00 -5:00 PM at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
New Orleans Fair Grounds
Join me in the Jazz Fest book tent for a book signing!
Mythology of the Mundane: Poetry of Domestic Fabulism
Friday, April 21, 2017
3:30-4:30 at New Orleans Healing Center
2372 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117
With Stacey Balkun, Catherine Moore, Jade Hurter, Paula Neves, Erin Elizabeth Smith
CD Wright Women Writers Conference
Sat, November 10, 2018
10:45 AM in Conway, AR
Reinventing Ever After: Women Reclaim the Fairy Tale: Creative Reading
(Donna Vorreyer, Sally Rosen Kindred, Stacey Balkun, Mary McMyne)
Sat, November 10, 2018
2:00 PM in Conway, AR
Nan Snow Emerging Writer Award Winners
(Ellie Black, Stacey Balkun, Jennifer ‘Coffy’ Davis, Taneum Bambrick
The conference demonstrates its commitment to promising new women-identifying writers by sponsoring the Nan Snow Emerging Writer Award. This session draws attention to our 2018 winners, as each writer reads from her work.
Words & Music Fest Presents Po Boys & Poets
Friday, November 16, 2018
11:45 AM at Dragonfly Poetry Center
Readers: Alison Pelegrin, James Nolan, Christopher Romaguera, Shaina Monet, Mona Lisa Saloy, Clare Harmon, hosting by Stacey Balkun
Literature and Lunch--$25
Reading: with Alison Pelegrin at UNO
Wed, April 17, 2019
8:00 PM at the University of New Orleans
The Splice Poetry Series
Sat, Jan 15, 2022
6:00-8:00 PM at The Saturn Bar, NOLA
with Carolyn Hembree
Poets in Pajamas
Sun, Feb 27, 2022
6 PM CST, virtual
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Sundress Reading at Smol Fair
Sat, March 19, 2022
6-7:30 PM CST, virtual
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New Orleans Poetry Festival
April 18-24
Time & Place TBD
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Glitterary Festival
April 29, 2022
Featuring Key Note Speaker Jericho Brown
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Hundred Pitchers of Honey
June 9, 2022
Virtual Reading
with Dustin Brookshire & Katie Manning
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AWP
S215.Uprooted / Unrooted: Adopted and Donor-Conceived Poets Rewriting Family
Sat, March 11, 2022
3:20 - 4:35 PM
Seattle, WA
The bonds that make “family” have always extended beyond its traditional definition; blood isn’t always thicker than water. Five poets redefine the notion of family, discussing their experiences with adoption-from-birth, late-discovery cross-cultural adoption, and donor-conception, and sharing how such experience has (or hasn’t) impacted the writing and/or publishing of creative work. To widen the discussion and make room for all families, this event will invite the audience to join in via Q&A.
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