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PRROBLEM X Blue Bag Press Reading will be held on Friday, April 17, 2026 from 5:00–7:00 PM at Kermit’s Treme Mother-in-Law Lounge (1500 N. Claiborne Ave., New Orleans). Hosted by Blue Bag Press and PRROBLEM, this lively reading features Eric Tyler Benick, Jenkin Benson, Corbett Bresner, Sol Cabrini, Yuyi Chen, Ry Cook, Christine Kelly, Kimberly Lambright, Maura Modeya, Laura Paul, and Léon Pradeau.
nDada Workshop takes place on Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM at Garden on Marais (4600 Marais Street, New Orleans, LA 70117). nDada is a combination of an unconventional, perhaps absurd, cartoon and a poem or micro-poem/thought; the two are entirely unrelated and often come together by chance, with the cartoon unexpectedly interrupting the poem and reorienting the reader’s point of view, perhaps deflecting any sense of ego in the reading or writing. The workshop will begin with a few nDada skits, where participants are the audience, using a set of Whiskey Radish’s nDada poems as prompts as facilitators perform improvised moments of theater to capture the spirit of “rude interruption” that is the heartbeat of nDada. Everyone will be given a chance to create poems in the nDada style and to work in pairs to act these out, in what is sure to be a historic moment in the history of the absurd!
Film Screening: Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory will take place on Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM at Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge (6621 St. Claude Ave., Arabi, LA 70032 | 504-352-1150 | www.Zeitgeistnola.org). This special screening features the acclaimed documentary about Africa’s first Nobel Prize winner in Literature. Premiering in 2024 in celebration of the writer’s 90th birthday, the film has since screened internationally, earned multiple awards, and is now used in classrooms and cultural institutions around the world. The event will conclude with a short Q&A with the film’s director, Mr. Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, who is also co-editor of Best Literary Translations, featured at the 2026 New Orleans Poetry Festival.
“The Chicago Table” Reading takes place on Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM at Mudlark Public Theatre. Hosted by Chicago Review, The Year, Transat’, and Selva Oscura, this collaborative event brings together an international group of writers for a dynamic early-morning reading. Featured readers include Hannah Piette, Emily Bark Brown, James Garwood-Cole, Lee Ann Brown, Vincent Broqua, Camille Bloomfield, and Emmett Lewis.
Texas Review Mega-Reading & Dance Party kicks off on Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM in the Twilight Room at The AllWays Lounge & Cabaret (2240 St. Claude Ave.). Celebrating 45 years of Texas Review and the many contributors who have shaped its legacy, this high-energy evening features readings by Danielle Pafunda, Paul Cunningham, Henry Goldkamp, Sean F. Munro, Becca Klaver, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Monica Prince, Jadine Pluecker, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Megan Kaminski, Aliah Lavonne Tigh, Steven Alvarez, Mike Bagwell, Parker Logan, Petra Kuppers, Stephanie Heit, Shira Dentz, Maura Modeya, Brent Armendinger, and many more. The celebration keeps going with a dance party starting at midnight.