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New Orleans is a city teeming with creative energy. It is a place where artists are both born and reborn, a place that cultivates its own creative young and a place to which artists and creatives flock from other locales. Gold Room, a monthly reading series birthed out of the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans, is one of the city’s oldest continuous reading and performance series. In recognition of that, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation has granted us funding to curate and print a Gold Room Anthology to celebrate the many writers who've read at Gold Room, and we'd love to showcase our anthology poets at New Orleans Poetry Festival.
Over the past twelve months, we’ve had the pleasure of hosting some of New Orleans’ most formidable talents: Daniel Lee, Meghan Sullivan, Mimi Ayers, Ryan Mayer, Isaac Lauritsen, and more. We are hoping to honor those who share our pages by offering them a stage to share. The root of our anthology is a celebration of the people we are blessed to make art with and this great city we are lucky to make art within.
The goal of this reading is to celebrate what Gold Room has always been and will further become: a staple of the New Orleans’ creative community. It is our honor to do this work and we are grateful for opportunities to build and bridge communities here in New Orleans.
