The Ninth Annual

New Orleans Poetry Festival

April 18-21, 2024 


The complete 2024 schedule is now available. Click here or in the menu above.

We have completed the review of proposals for NOPF 2024; if you submitted a proposal as an Individual Reader you should have been notified by now.

Hey, would you like to volunteer with NOPF24? We need all the help we can get, and it's a great way to meet poets and other great people. Click here if you're interested.

We are excited to announce our feature performers for Saturday night, April 20:

latasha

Interdisciplinary poet and sound artist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of Village (Coffee House Press 2023) and TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). She is also the author of three chapbooks, which include Ichi- Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press), Manuel is destroying my bathroom (Belladonna*), and the album Televisíon. (Read more...)

Carolina

Carolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet and author of You Ask Me to Talk about the Interior and the chapbook Dauerwunder: a brief record of facts. Her work has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, Bread Loaf, CantoMundo, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, as well as a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. (Read more...)

Cornelius

National Book Award finalist and Pulitzer prize nominated poet Cornelius Eady has set his poetry to song with the Cornelius Eady Group. Eady's songs tell the story of passing time, the Black American experience and the blues in the style of Folk & Americana music. Guitarists Charlie Rauh & Lisa Liu join Eady in the trio. (Read more...)

And here's the lineup for International Night, Friday, April 19th, at Café Istanbul. The evening kicks off with a panel discussion:

Department of Lost-and-Found: a discussion by poets, translators, and publishers Janaka Stucky, Jake Levine, Sue Hyon Bae, Ha Jaeyoun, and Hwang Yuwon on translation.

Following the discussion we'll see performances by Hwang Yuwon, Ha Jaeyoun, Sue Hyon Bae, & Jake Levine.


Also this year we are introducing the NOPF Roadshow:

rdshw

The NOPF Roadshow features Korean poets Hwang Yuwon and Ha Jaeyoun, with translator and poet Jake Levine plus New Orleans and Louisiana locals, on the road in Louisiana. Click on these for complete details:


Please Help Us Keep NOPF Running by Donating Today

We are committed to the idea that poetry should be free and open to everyone, but please realize that it costs a significant amount to put this festival on. So if you can, please send your tax deductible donation to NOPF today, or, better yet, set up a recurring gift. Click here to access our easy-to-use donation portal.


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