2026 Simple List of Events

Thu, 04/16/2026 - 7:00 pm

Saturn Bar

Theresa, I Miss You

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 9:00 am

All (Mobile)

Archive Poetics

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 10:00 am

Café Istanbul

Small Press Fair: Friday

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 10:00 am

Grand Hall, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

The Book as Body: Constructing Memory Archives for a Post Apocalyptic Future

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 10:00 am

Kolaj Institute, 2374 St Claude Ave #230

The Minoritarian Mode: On Fidelity, Experimentation, and Deterritorialization in Translation

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 10:00 am

NOHC 204

SupercalEKPHRASTICaladocious: Enlarging Creative Practice

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 10:00 am

NOHC 250

Safekeeping and Keepsakes: The Poetics of Confessional Serial Writing

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 10:00 am

NOHC 300A

Breaking Lines: Poetry Workshops in Carceral Spaces

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 11:00 am

Café Istanbul

ANIMATE YOUR POEM

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 11:00 am

Kolaj Institute, 2374 St Claude Ave #230

Cantar/es: Mesoamerican Aesthetics and Poetics

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 11:00 am

NOHC 204

Purity Culture and the Southern Gothic

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 11:00 am

NOHC 250

Transgressive Ecologies: Writing Political Urgency through Radical Poetics

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 11:00 am

NOHC 300A

Exophonic Poetry Reading

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 1:00 pm

AllWays Back

Common Place Poetics Reading

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 1:00 pm

AllWays Front

ROUNDTABLE: VISION AS RELATIONALITY

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 1:00 pm

Café Istanbul

Lagniappe Reading 1

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 1:00 pm

Kajun's Karaoke Bar, 2256 St Claude Ave

Hybrid Possibilities: Writing Across Disciplines and Senses

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 1:00 pm

Kolaj Institute, 2374 St Claude Ave #230

A Spatial Craft: Poetry and the World We Live In

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 1:00 pm

NOHC 204

Ecstasy in Lyric: Contemporary Poetry Of and Beyond Self

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 1:00 pm

NOHC 250

There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money: Five Poets Respond to Capitalism

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 1:00 pm

NOHC 300A

Marathon Open Mic

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 1:00 pm

Siberia, 2227 St Claude Ave

Shitholes of the World, Unite: A Reading of Poetry in Translation

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 1:00 pm

St Roch Tavern

New Approaches in Memory and Desire: A Ruth Stone House Reading

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 2:30 pm

AllWays Back

A Working Girls Press Reading

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 2:30 pm

AllWays Front

The World in Red and Black: A (video) Reading with Four Oaxaca Poets

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 2:30 pm

Café Istanbul, 2372 St Claude Ave, Room 252

Lagniappe Reading 2

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 2:30 pm

Kajun's Karaoke Bar, 2256 St Claude Ave

POEMAS ANTES DE NACER: El suspiro del lenguaje / The First Breath of Language

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 2:30 pm

Kolaj Institute, 2374 St Claude Ave #230

Translating in a Burning World: A Conversation about the Best Literary Translations series

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 2:30 pm

NOHC 204

Queer/Trans Ecopoetics: Rootedness, Resistance, and Regeneration

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 2:30 pm

NOHC 250

Tracing Tiepolo’s Hound: Poets Working in the Visual Arts

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 2:30 pm

NOHC 300A

Small Press Fair Happy Hour

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 4:00 pm

Grand Hall, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

International Night: Mexican Poetry & Translation

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 7:00 pm

Café Istanbul, 2372 St Claude Ave, Room 252

Experiments in Translation: Solidarities through Time and Space

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 10:00 am

Café Istanbul

Small Press Fair Saturday

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 10:00 am

Grand Hall, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Ekphragrance: Generative Poetry + Perfume Workshop

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 10:00 am

Kolaj Institute, 2374 St Claude Ave #230

Humor/Horror: after Douglas Kearney

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 10:00 am

NOHC 204

Irreverent Voices: Latin America’s Neo-Avant-Garde Poets

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 10:00 am

NOHC 300A

Concurrent Languages: Multilingual Poetry in Practice

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 10:00 am

NOHC 400

Beautiful and Ugly Too: A Reading with Chuck Perkins

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 11:00 am

Café Istanbul

Nested Languages: Louisiana Spanish Language (LSL)

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 11:00 am

Kolaj Institute, 2374 St Claude Ave #230

Poets of Louisiana State University

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 11:00 am

NOHC 204

BRACKISH POETICS: Blended, Hybrid, Louisiana Narrative in Contemporary Poetry

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 11:00 am

NOHC 300A

“A certain me is desirable”: Bob Kaufman Turns 101

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 11:00 am

NOHC 400

Less Likely As We Go: an Unlikely Stories reading

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 1:00 pm

AllWays Back

CANCELLED - FAYUCAS, ANÁBASIS Y VIENTO

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 1:00 pm

AllWays Front

Collective Task Performance

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 1:00 pm

Café Istanbul

Lagniappe Reading 3

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 1:00 pm

Kajun's Karaoke Bar, 2256 St Claude Ave

We Did it Ourselves: Sustainability & Integrity in DIY Publishing

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 1:00 pm

Kolaj Institute, 2374 St Claude Ave #230

Poetics of Disruption: Insomnia, Noise, & Interlocutory Layering

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 1:00 pm

NOHC 204

Despachos de "una nación artificial": Contemporary Poetics of Mexico and the Mexican Diaspora

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 1:00 pm

NOHC 300A

Lit Craft Is Witchcraft

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 1:00 pm

NOHC 400

Exophony or English as a Literary Language

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 1:00 pm

Siberia

Dream Desires: Mirror / Blueprint

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 1:00 pm

St Roch Tavern

Topos Days, Ursus Mundo

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 2:30 pm

AllWays Back

Poetas de la Librería Escandalar (Mexico City)

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 2:30 pm

AllWays Front

Black Ocean 20th Anniversary Celebration

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 2:30 pm

Café Istanbul

Lagniappe Reading 4

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 2:30 pm

Kajun's Karaoke Bar, 2256 St Claude Ave

Apprenticeships in the Trace: A Hands-On Intro to Literary Translation

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 2:30 pm

Kolaj Institute, 2374 St Claude Ave #230

Voices in Disguise: Persona, Performance, Prophecy & the Dispersed Poetic Self

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 2:30 pm

NOHC 204

Weaving Against Linearity: Archives, Repertoires, and Practices of Resistance

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 2:30 pm

NOHC 300A

Experiments in Translation. A Conversation

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 2:30 pm

NOHC 400

co•im•press Poets and Translators Reading

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 2:30 pm

Siberia

FIELD TRIP Detroit

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 2:30 pm

St Roch Tavern

Spiral Editions Traveling Family Band & People's Orchestra

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 4:00 pm

AllWays Back

The Future is now: a celebration of Afrofuturism and Black poetics

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 4:00 pm

AllWays Front

TwitchCon

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 4:00 pm

Café Istanbul

Lagniappe Reading 5

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 4:00 pm

Kajun's Karaoke Bar, 2256 St Claude Ave

Where We Come Together: A Generative Ekphrastic Writing Workshop that Welcomes Both Your Joys and Your Sorrows

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 4:00 pm

Kolaj Institute, 2374 St Claude Ave #230

“One Need Not Be a Chamber to Be Haunted”: Grotesque Forms, Gothic Nightmares, & Grimy Affect in Horror Poetry

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 4:00 pm

NOHC 204

The Poetics of Curation

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 4:00 pm

NOHC 300A

Tripwire: Transnational Poetics

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 4:00 pm

NOHC 400

Margin(al) Mimesis: Extension, Rupture, Adjacency

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 4:00 pm

Siberia

Lavender Ink / Diálogos Reading

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 4:00 pm

St Roch Tavern

Second Line: Jazz Funeral for the Death of Democracy

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 7:30 pm

St. Claude Ave, Neutral Ground

Saturday Night Features: JJJJJerome Ellis & Courtney Bush

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 8:00 pm

Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave

Small Press Fair Sunday

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 10:00 am

Grand Hall, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Kolaj Institute Workshop

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 10:00 am

Kolaj Institute

New Waves and Unfamiliar Sensations: A Korean-English Bilingual Reading

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 10:00 am

NOHC 204

What Kind of Poetry World Should We Have? (An Annulet and RCAH Center for Poetry Roundtable)

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 10:00 am

NOHC 300A

The Shadow Dissertation: The Poetry that Happened While We Were Being Scholars

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 10:00 am

NOHC 400

A World You’ve Never Seen: All About Korean Poetry Culture (Roundtable)

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 11:00 am

NOHC 204

"It's Copperhead Season(s):" Collaborative Composition, Shared Snake Stories, Poetics of Performance

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 11:00 am

NOHC 300A

Contemporary Poetry in Translation: Poets and their Translators

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 11:00 am

NOHC 400

Fence Books 25th Anniversary Reading

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 1:00 pm

AllWays Back

Poetry Against Empire

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 1:00 pm

AllWays Front

Lagniappe Reading 6

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 1:00 pm

Kajun's Karaoke Bar, 2256 St Claude Ave

The Bilingual Brain Poetry Workshop

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 1:00 pm

Kolaj Institute, 2374 St Claude Ave #230

“We walked through night until there was a poem”: Walking as Writing Practice

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 1:00 pm

NOHC 204

Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo: 10 Years Later

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 1:00 pm

NOHC 300A

Archive Fantasma: Stories to Be Had Everywhere

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 1:00 pm

NOHC 400

If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now: An APARTMENT Poetry Reading

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 1:00 pm

Siberia

Contemporary Latin American Environmental Poetry

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 1:00 pm

St Roch Tavern

Engaging Resistance through Feminist Archives

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 2:30 pm

AllWays Back

UDP - Second Factory Celebration

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 2:30 pm

AllWays Front

Lagniappe Reading 7

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 2:30 pm

Kajun's Karaoke Bar, 2256 St Claude Ave

Strange Magic: Writing Surreal Poems

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 2:30 pm

Kolaj Institute, 2374 St Claude Ave #230

Modes of Circulation: Translation Projects and the Changing Position of Imperial Centers

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 2:30 pm

NOHC 204

Form and (Dis)Content, Vol 7: Genre Up, Genre Down

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 2:30 pm

NOHC 300A

Roundtable: Divinatory Poetics: Queer Counter-Prophecy and Radical Futurities

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 2:30 pm

NOHC 400

a mercury firs reading ~ ~ > >

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 2:30 pm

Siberia

BOA Editions 50th anniversary reading