2025 Simple List of Events | New Orleans Poetry Festival

Hybrid Music Collaboration Workshop

Mon, 04/07/2025 - 4:00 pm

4th Floor, Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St.

NOPF Road Show: Lafayette

Tue, 04/08/2025 - 6:00 pm

Cavalier Books, 302 A Jefferson St, Lafayette, LA 70501

NOPF Road Show: Thibodaux

Wed, 04/09/2025 - 1:00 pm

Le Bijou Theater in the Donald G. Bollinger Memorial Student Union, 104 Ellendale Dr., Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA 70301

Poetry Behind the Walls: A Special Performance at Angola

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 1:00 pm

Louisiana State Penitentiary, 17544 Tunica Trace, Angola, LA 70712

Workshop for French-language teachers

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 4:00 pm

virtual

Frédéric Forte

NOPF Road Show: Tulane

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 5:00 pm

Brent V. B. Dixon Performing Arts Center, The I. H. Bass Choral Hall, Room 254, Newcomb Cir, New Orleans, LA 70118

Locals Night Opening Gala

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 7:00 pm

Saturn Bar, 3067 St Claude Ave

Massive Marathon Open Mic

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 1:00 pm

Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave.

NOPF Memorial Second Line

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 5:30 pm

Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave.

Bill Lavender

International Night: French Poetry & Translation

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 7:00 pm

Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

A Pity-Bath (Reading Organized by Pitymilk Press and Bathmatics)

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 9:00 am

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

A Throw of the Dice: Generative Writing with Chance

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 9:00 am

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Poetry &: insights into collaboration

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 9:00 am

Room 250, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Translating Latin American Poetry: A Reading and Discussion

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 9:00 am

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Women in Independent Publishing Book Release and Discussion

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 9:00 am

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Ecstatic Abjection: Transgression as Resistance in Poetic Practice

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 10:00 am

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Lagniappe Reading 1

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 10:00 am

Room 250, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Multilingual Poetics: A Continual Unwinding and Redefining

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 10:00 am

Café Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Poetry and Other Arts

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 10:00 am

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Strange Symmetry: A Call & Response Reading Co-hosted by DIALOGIST & Tyger Quarterly

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 10:00 am

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

The School of Human Pain

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 10:00 am

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Erasmo Pantoja

American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 11:00 am

Café Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

From First Editions to Fine Press: Tulane University Special Collections Showcase

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 11:00 am

Room 128, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Agnieszka Czeblakow

Guatemala at a Distance

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 11:00 am

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Lagniappe Reading 2

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 11:00 am

Suite 250, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Lagniappe Reading 3

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 11:00 am

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Saturnalia Books: A Reading in Celebration of New Publications

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 11:00 am

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Writing Poems to Excavate History

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 11:00 am

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Lifelines Lunch

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 12:00 pm

Café Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

"Bringing It All Back Home": New Work from Far-flung Family

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 1:00 pm

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Friends of Lightscatter Press Reading

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 1:00 pm

Poetry In Process: How To Un-species Through Sound

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 1:00 pm

Café Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Poetry is Trash

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 1:00 pm

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Ash(ley) Michelle C.

Poets of Tupelo Press: A Reading

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 1:00 pm

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

The Common/Uncommon Language of Loss: The Processes of Writing about Grief

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 1:00 pm

Room 250, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Unlikely Stories: A Reading through Strange Times

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 1:00 pm

Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave.

Lagniappe Reading 4

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 2:00 pm

Suite 250, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Lagniappe Reading 5

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 2:00 pm

Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave.

Navigating Nowhere: Embodying & Abandoning Grotesque Landscapes

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 2:00 pm

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Poetry as Prayer for Change Workshop

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 2:00 pm

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Miriam Calleja

Radioactive Samizdat: Tina Darragh's Ecological Agitprop Dramas

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 2:00 pm

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Translating Poetry: Between Authenticity and Creativity

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 2:00 pm

Café Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Tripwire Group Reading

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 2:00 pm

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Ian U Lockaby and Other Ghosts Read

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 3:00 pm

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

In Touch: Poetry in Three Dimensions

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 3:00 pm

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Lavender Ink / Diálogos Reading

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 3:00 pm

Café Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Open Ensemble

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 3:00 pm

Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave.

Sacred and Somatic

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 3:00 pm

Room 250, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Speaking Against: On Poetic Contradiction

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 3:00 pm

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Under the Concrete, the Beach?: Guerilla Poetry in 2025

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 3:00 pm

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Carrion Bloom Books Fifth Anniversary Reading

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 4:00 pm

Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave.

Dance as Re-Membering: A Poetic Intervention

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 4:00 pm

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Queer Texas Poets

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 4:00 pm

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Rigorous Reading

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 4:00 pm

Café Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Sing to me, O Muse!: Mythos Poetics

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 4:00 pm

Room 250, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Slow Poetry: A Book Arts + Walking Poetry Workshop

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 4:00 pm

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Traci D Brimhall

Translations and Translatability: Bishop, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 4:00 pm

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Saturday Night Feature: Ariana Reines & Tongo Eisen-Martin

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 7:00 pm

Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Lavender Ink / Diálogos and Unlikely Books Reception

Sat, 04/12/2025 - 9:00 pm

Artisan Bar and Café, 2514 St Claude Ave.

Academy Fight Song: Poetry, Precarity, and Solidarity

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 9:00 am

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Beyond the Page: Poetry & Alternative Creative Practices

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 9:00 am

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Nevertheless They Persisted: A Reading of Nasty Women Poets

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 9:00 am

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Poetry as Coexistence

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 9:00 am

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Carrion Bloom Small Forms Workshop

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 10:00 am

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Lagniappe Reading 6

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 10:00 am

Suite 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

PowerPoint Poetry Performance

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 10:00 am

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 10:00 am

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Feminist Avant-garde Influences: A Dialogue

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 11:00 am

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

From Manuscript to Book

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 11:00 am

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Emily Bludworth de Barrios

Poetics of the Handmade

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 11:00 am

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Poets Watching Movies

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 11:00 am

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

RESISTANCE DREAMS: A Collaborative Performance

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 12:00 pm

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

DoubleCross Press Reading

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 1:00 pm

Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave.

Lagniappe Reading 7

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 1:00 pm

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Publishing on the Margins: Print Formats Beyond the Book

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 1:00 pm

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

RAISE the DEAD: a regenerative workshop

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 1:00 pm

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Laura Mullen

Trampoline Poetry Reading

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 1:00 pm

Room 250, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Winter Editions Reading

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 1:00 pm

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Bagley Wright Lecture Series: Anselm Berrigan Pregrettably Yours: On Being Influenced

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 2:00 pm

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Anselm Berrigan

Kenneth Koch: A Celebration

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 2:00 pm

Room 250, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Reflections on the Water: A Guided Ekphrastic Workshop in Response to Short Conservationist Film and Experimental Art Installations

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 2:00 pm

Room 224, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Twelve Years of APARTMENT Poetry

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 2:00 pm

Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave.

Words of Wonder: Poet Laureates on Joy, Praise, and Hope

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 2:00 pm

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

“apricot trees exist, apricot trees exist”: On Writing Abundance in a Time of Diminishment

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 2:00 pm

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Ekphrasis as Witness: Using Other Artists’ Work as Lenses for Documenting Injustice

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 3:00 pm

Room 250, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Form and Discontent, Vol. 6: “When has it not been political?”

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 3:00 pm

Room 204, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

The Shape of Time: A Conversation on Memory and the Imaginal

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 3:00 pm

Room 300, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

Translation as Poetry Engine

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 3:00 pm

Room 400 (rooftop), New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave

yrs in the firsss: a mercury firs reading

Sun, 04/13/2025 - 3:00 pm

Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave.

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