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  New Orleans Poetry Festival — Saturday April 12, 2025 
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Room8:00 AM9:00-9:50am10:00-10:50am11:00-11:50am12:00-12:50pm1:00-1:50pm2:00-2:50pm3:00-3:50pm4:00-4:50pm
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Main HallSetupSmall Press Fair 
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Front Window   From First Editions to Fine Press:​ Tulane University Special Collections Showcase   
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204 Translating Latin American Poetry: A Reading and DiscussionPoetry and Other ArtsGuatemala at a Distance Poets of Tupelo Press: A ReadingTripwire Group ReadingSpeaking Against: On Poetic ContradictionQueer Texas Poets
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250 Poetry &: insights into collaborationLagniappe Reading 1Lagniappe Reading 2 The Common/Uncommon Language of Loss: The Processes of Writing about GriefLagniappe Reading 4Sacred and SomaticSing to me, O Muse!: Mythos Poetics
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400 A Pity-Bath (Reading Organized by Pitymilk Press and Bathmatics)Ecstatic Abjection: Transgression as Resistance in Poetic PracticeSaturnalia Books: A Reading in Celebration of New Publications "Bringing It All Back Home": New Work from Far-flung FamilyNavigating Nowhere: Embodying & Abandoning Grotesque LandscapesIan U Lockaby and Other Ghosts ReadDance as Re-Membering: A Poetic Intervention
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300A Women in Independent Publishing Book Release and DiscussionStrange Symmetry: A Call & Response Reading Co-hosted by DIALOGIST & Tyger QuarterlyLagniappe Reading 3 Friends of Lightscatter Press ReadingRadioactive Samizdat: Tina Darragh's Ecological Agitprop DramasIn Touch: Poetry in Three DimensionsTranslations and Translatability: Bishop, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova
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224WorkshopsA Throw of the Dice: Generative Writing with ChanceThe School of Human PainWriting Poems to Excavate History Poetry is TrashPoetry as Prayer for Change WorkshopUnder the Concrete, the Beach?: Guerilla Poetry in 2025Slow Poetry: A Book Arts + Walking Poetry Workshop
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Café Istanbul  Multilingual Poetics: A Continual Unwinding and RedefiningAmerican Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025Lifelines LunchPoetry In Process: How To Un-species Through SoundTranslating Poetry: Between Authenticity and CreativityLavender Ink / Diálogos ReadingRigorous Reading
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Siberia     Unlikely Stories: A Reading through Strange TimesLagniappe Reading 5Open EnsembleCarrion Bloom Books Fifth Anniversary Reading
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All rooms are inside the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude, except for Siberia which is at 2227 St. Claude Ave 
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  New Orleans Poetry Festival — Sunday April 13, 2025 
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Room8:00 AM9:00-9:50am10:00-10:50am11:00-11:50am12:00-12:50pm1:00-1:50pm2:00-2:50pm3:00-3:50pm 
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Main HallSetupSmall Press Fair 
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Front Window   From First Editions to Fine Press:​ Tulane University Special Collections Showcase   
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204 Nevertheless They Persisted: A Reading of Nasty Women PoetsThe Life and Poetry of Frank StanfordPoets Watching Movies Publishing on the Margins: Print Formats Beyond the Book“apricot trees exist, apricot trees exist”: On Writing Abundance in a Time of DiminishmentForm and Discontent, Vol. 6: “When has it not been political?” 
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250     Trampoline Poetry ReadingKenneth Koch: A CelebrationEkphrasis as Witness: Using Other Artists’ Work as Lenses for Documenting Injustice 
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400 Beyond the Page: Poetry & Alternative Creative PracticesLagniappe Reading 6Poetics of the HandmadeRESISTANCE DREAMS: A Collaborative PerformanceWinter Editions ReadingWords of Wonder: Poet Laureates on Joy, Praise, and HopeTranslation as Poetry Engine 
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300A Academy Fight Song: Poetry, Precarity, and SolidarityPowerPoint Poetry PerformanceFeminist Avant-garde Influences: A Dialogue Lagniappe Reading 7Bagley Wright Lecture Series: Anselm Berrigan Pregrettably Yours: On Being InfluencedThe Shape of Time: A Conversation on Memory and the Imaginal 
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224WorkshopsPoetry as CoexistenceCarrion Bloom Small Forms WorkshopFrom Manuscript to Book RAISE the DEAD: a regenerative workshopReflections on the Water: A Guided Ekphrastic Workshop 
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Siberia     DoubleCross Press ReadingTwelve Years of APARTMENT Poetryyrs in the firsss: a mercury firs reading 
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All rooms are inside the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude, except for Siberia which is at 2227 St. Claude Ave