| | Saturday April 12, 2025 | |
Room | 8:00 AM | 9:00-9:50am | 10:00-10:50am | 11:00-11:50am | 12:00-12:50pm | 1:00-1:50pm | 2:00-2:50pm | 3:00-3:50pm | 4:00-4:50pm |
Main Hall | Setup | Small Press Fair | |
204 | | Translating Latin American Poetry: A Reading and Discussion | Poetry and Other Arts | Guatemala at a Distance | | Poets of Tupelo Press: A Reading | Tripwire Group Reading | Speaking Against: On Poetic Contradiction | Queer Texas Poets |
250 | | Poetry &: insights into collaboration | In Touch: Poetry in Three Dimensions | Wet Cement Press Reading | | The Common/Uncommon Language of Loss: The Processes of Writing about Grief | Small Press Reading 2 | Sacred and Somatic | Sing to me, O Muse!: Mythos Poetics |
400 | | A Pity-Bath (Reading Organized by Pitymilk Press and Bathmatics) | Ecstatic Abjection: Transgression as Resistance in Poetic Practice | Saturnalia Books: A Reading in Celebration of New Publications | | "Bringing It All Back Home": New Work from Far-flung Family | Navigating Nowhere: Embodying & Abandoning Grotesque Landscapes | Ian U Lockaby and Other Ghosts Read | Dance as Re-Membering: A Poetic Intervention |
300 | | Women in Independent Publishing Book Release and Discussion | Strange Symmetry: A Call & Response Reading Co-hosted by DIALOGIST & Tyger Quarterly | Small Press Reading 1 | | Friends of Lightscatter Press Reading | Radioactive Samizdat: Tina Darragh's Ecological Agitprop Dramas | Small Press Reading 3 | Translations and Translatability: Bishop, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova |
224 | Workshops | A Throw of the Dice: Generative Writing with Chance | The School of Human Pain | Writing Poems to Excavate History | | Poetry is Trash | Poetry as Prayer for Change Workshop | Under the Concrete, the Beach?: Guerilla Poetry in 2025 | Slow Poetry: A Book Arts + Walking Poetry Workshop |
Café Istanbul | | | Multilingual Poetics: A Continual Unwinding and Redefining | American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025 | Lifelines Lunch | Poetry In Process: How To Un-species Through Sound | Translating Poetry: Between Authenticity and Creativity | Lavender Ink / Diálogos Reading | Rigorous Reading |
St. Roch Tavern | | | | | | Unlikely Stories: A Reading through Strange Times | Open Ensemble | RESISTANCE DREAMS: A Collaborative Performance | Carrion Bloom Books Fifth Anniversary Reading |
All rooms are inside the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude, except St. Roch Tavern which is at 1200 St. Roch. | |
| | Sunday April 13, 2025 | |
Room | 8:00 AM | 9:00-9:50am | 10:00-10:50am | 11:00-11:50am | 12:00-12:50pm | 1:00-1:50pm | 2:00-2:50pm | 3:00-3:50pm | |
Main Hall | Setup | Small Press Fair | |
204 | | Nevertheless They Persisted: A Reading of Nasty Women Poets | The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford | Poets Watching Movies | | Publishing on the Margins: Print Formats Beyond the Book | “apricot trees exist, apricot trees exist”: On Writing Abundance in a Time of Diminishment | Form and Discontent, Vol. 6: “When has it not been political?” | |
250 | | | | | | Trampoline Poetry Reading | Kenneth Koch: A Celebration | Ekphrasis as Witness: Using Other Artists’ Work as Lenses for Documenting Injustice | |
400 | | Beyond the Page: Poetry & Alternative Creative Practices | Small Press Reading 4 | Poetics of the Handmade | | Winter Editions Reading | Words of Wonder: Poet Laureates on Joy, Praise, and Hope | Translation as Poetry Engine | |
300 | | Academy Fight Song: Poetry, Precarity, and Solidarity | PowerPoint Poetry Performance | Feminist Avant-garde Influences: A Dialogue | | Small Press Reading 5 | Bagley Wright Lecture Series: Anselm Berrigan Pregrettably Yours: On Being Influenced | The Shape of Time: A Conversation on Memory and the Imaginal | |
224 | Workshops | Poetry as Coexistence | RAISE the DEAD: a regenerative workshop | Carrion Bloom Small Forms Workshop | | From Manuscript to Book | Reflections on the Water: A Guided Ekphrastic Workshop | |
St. Roch Tavern | | | | | | DoubleCross Press Reading | Twelve Years of APARTMENT Poetry | yrs in the firsss: a mercury firs reading | |
All rooms are inside the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude, except St. Roch Tavern which is at 1200 St. Roch. | |