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When the unthinkable happened in the 2016 presidential elections, poets Julie Kane and Grace Bauer hatched a plot of poetic resistance. They sent out a call for "all good women to come to the aide of their country." The response was enthusiastic and culminated in the anthology Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press). A nationwide community grew out of the anthology, with Nasty Women Poets' Readings happening from coast to coast--including here in New Orleans. Now that the even more unthinkable has happened again (and your body, my choice tee shirts are available online), we think it's time to hear from these women once more. This reading will feature 9 regional Nasty Women Poets, plus the editors, who will read their poems and other poets from the anthology. We will encourage the audience to persist in their own nastiness in their own ways--poetic and otherwise.
