Trampoline is a New Orleans-based online poetry weekly spotlighting local writers, as well as poets from around the world. To celebrate its fifth anniversary, Trampoline presents a reading by past contributors, Jesse DeLong, Daniel Fitzpatrick, M.A. Nicholson, alongside editor Justin Lacour.
The APARTMENT Poetry high-rise has been online for twelve years and counting. To celebrate, we present a reading featuring some of APARTMENT's most illustrious and multitude-containing tenants. APARTMENT thanks you in advance for your attendance. As we're always saying: If you lived here, you'd be home by now.
mercury firs is an online journal of poetry, text, and whatevfir else— with a special interest in translation, hybrid texts, & 'ecologically-minded' work. Founded in 2022, published biannually, and chapbooks forthcoming, mercury firs aims to foreground innovative, novel, and exploratory work engaging dirt/flora/trash/fungus/non-human entanglements, porous boundaries of languages, dream/waking planes, & etc.,. to expand the thinkable… inside the outside….
A reading of mythos-inspired poetry. How do we use ancient myths to tell modern poetic stories? How can myth and ancient story help us process the trauma and complexity of our present day lives?
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.
DIALOGIST and Tyger Quarterly are excited to propose a collaborative reading that features poets from our pages. In the spirit of dialogue and a little flirtation with symmetry, the poets will be paired to identify pieces that mirror, contrast, or depart from one another by theme or form. From "Mother" to "April," sonnet to prose-poem, abecedarian to palindrome, the editors and readers will collaborate over the winter months to craft a reading that speaks from and back to the opening breath and the concluding silence.
Urgency, imagination, distinctiveness, craft: Tupelo, an independent, nonprofit literary press, publishes some of the most powerful poetry around. Karen An-hwei Lee, Cate Peebles, Preeti Kaur Rajpal, Natasha Saje, and Lesley Wheeler will read from their recent Tupelo collections.
In this multimedia poetry performance, Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo, Kai Ihns, and Alyssa Perry will each present work that takes a hybrid approach to such topics as performance, business, poetry, image, punctuation, swans, and powerpoint presentation. Juliet will perform her one woman poetry show, Business v. Poetry. Kai will perform Picture Hyphen--a show of image and text. Alyssa will perform her poem Swan, set to a YouTube video of said swan. The event will bring together performance, poetry, and the tools we use to build them.
Since 1998, the online journal Unlikely Stories has been publishing the political, the transgressive, and the stylistically bizarre. This reading celebrates that journal by bringing together four diverse voices, united in their commitment to expanding and redefining the impact of poetry on an audience. We’ll move through traditional forms and historic subjects to contemporary terrors and innovative poetic structures, running wild and hitting hard.
Lavender Ink and Diálogos present readings by the authors of recent releases, including but not necessarily limited to: