Reading

Individual poets present their work.

"Resonant Visions" emerges as a groundbreaking performance, artfully merging the enchanting realm of visual poetry with the dynamic landscape of sound poetics. This experimental event signifies a unique collaboration between the visionary talents at Post Asemic Press and the auditory pioneers at Full Spectrum Records. The journey began in 2016 when Andrew Weathers and Tanner Menard embarked on an experimental Sound Poetry Project, later celebrated under the Full Spectrum Records label.

Founded in 1998, the web-magazine Unlikely Stories continues to bring some of the web's most innovate and startling literature and art. Along with its daughter imprint Unlikely Books, Unlikely Stories seeks the scary edge of sociopolitical thought and how it intersects with artistic experimentation. Our five readers, who come from a variety of backgrounds and aesthetics, will excite and inflame.

White Pine Press is a non-profit literary publisher, established in 1973, which publishes poetry, fiction, essays, and literature in translation from around the world. For almost fifty years we have been at the forefront in bringing the rich diversity of world literature to the English speaking audience. We seek to enrich our literary heritage; to promote the cultural awareness, understanding, and respect so vital in our rapidly changing world; and to address complex social and human rights issues through literature.

A reading showcases new and emerging works by South Asian and Filipinx women and nonbinary writers and poets.

Reading Experiment in Progress, an interactive collaboration hosted by Red Rover Series, will involve any writers who wish to participate.  Our goals are to foster innovative forms, aesthetic solidarities, and a multifarious performance with this year’s NOPF community so all have the opportunity to improvise in live space and time together.  We will continue to recruit collaborators up to the start of the 2024 festival.  During this event, every audience member is a potential performer.

Like Louisiana in general, and New Orleans in particular, many parts of the world are working to reclaim land from the sea, as well as reclaim the sea and other water bodies from pollution and catastrophe. More figuratively, reclamation is also a way to repossess one's identity, history, and space from forces that would deny or crush them.

This reading will be a preview of LMNL Art’s first-ever anthology that will be published May 2024. The anthology series aims to platform New Orleans multi-genre writers, while celebrating our community’s representational diversity and creative pursuits. LMNL Arts Anthology Vol. 1 contains a curated collection of the best written works that have been presented at various LMNL events during 2023.

This reading panel consists of four poets whose own work has been shaped by their practice as translators. The languages they translate from are Russian, Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol, Galician, German, Polish, and Norwegian. Each poet will read their own original work along with one piece they translated that is somehow related to their own work. Though there need not be any causal connection between the translated piece and the work of the poet, each poet will briefly elucidate the nature of the relationship.

The Rose City comes to the Crescent City! This group reading showcases poets from Portland, Oregon, many with connections to the city's longstanding Spare Room reading series and to Portland State University. Readers represent a variety of styles and subject matters, but are united in a commitment to linguistic adventure and sociopolitical inquiry.