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Book tables and socializing in the Grand Hall at NOHC. 9 AM to 5 PM

Book tables and socializing in the Grand Hall at NOHC. 9 AM to 5 PM

To the team at NOPF,

My name is Josh, and I am the poetry co-editor at The Pinch.

The Pinch is a bi-annual literary journal produced entirely by the students of the University of Memphis MFA Program and English Department.

The Pinch was founded in 1980 as the Memphis State Review by William Page. In its first few years, the journal published such well-known writers as Robert Bly, Phillip Levine, Mary Oliver, Robert Penn Warren, and Margaret Atwood.

We publish poetry, prose and visual art. All submissions' fees and other support go toward funding our annual contest, our contributors, and our production costs.

We have and continue to table at events such as the Southern Festival of Books and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference. Typically, we sell our current and past issues at our table, as well as have a free activity, such as a short craft workshop or a tarot reading. We would love to expand our reach and connect with fellow talented artists and writers, especially in a city that I call home.

Thank you so much for your consideration. We really look forward to hearing back from you.

Sincerely,

Joshua Carlucci

Luna Press is dedicated to the publishing of illustrated books — based on Baudelaire’s idea that there are “correspondences” between the arts and that the best and most natural appreciation of a work of art may be a response to it in another. Luna Press’s goal is to emphasize the correspondence between words and images, thereby creating beautiful books.

The goal of Carnalitx Mobile Bookstore is providing low priced, gently read, priced literature primarily from persons of color, and a variety of cultures. All forms of literature are represented, such as fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

Megan Burns, Bill Lavender, and the New Orleans Poetry Festival Team:

First, thank you all so much for hosting this event. It is a highlight to poets, presses, and more.

It would be a joy and an honor to participate on behalf of Meadowlark Press (and its poetry imprint specifically, Meadowlark Poetry Press) by having a table and/or having a group reading with a few of our poets. I presently serve as Meadowlark’s publicist and poetry editor and would personally attend the event, along with some Meadowlark poets, including Kansas Notable Book Award winner Brian Daldorph; Birdy Poetry Prize winner Alison Hicks; Co-Editor of New Orleans-based small press, Six Ft. Swells Press, Julie Valin; and repeat Meadowlark author and badass, Olive Sullivan. We would love to have a table that features these poets, their books, as well as other Meadowlark poetry books, which can all be found on meadowlarkpoetrypress.com. Meadowlark has a history of publishing the Kansas Poets Laureate, has had a collection endorsed by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, and, though I love to celebrate these notable traits, what we really love to do is bring people together through poetry. Meadowlark believes that books are a way to explore, connect, and discover. Poetry incites us to observe and think in new ways, bridging our understanding of the world with our artistic need to interact with, shape, and share it with others. Publishing poetry is our way of saying, “We love these words, we want to preserve them, we want to play a role in sharing them with the world.” What better place than to do this in New Orleans? Being a part of this event, we all get to support poetry—something we all passionately care about.

Thank you for your consideration!

Take care,

Linzi Garcia
Publicist and Poetry Editor
Meadowlark Press
www.meadowlarkbookstore.com
(303) 547-6763

Kelsey Street Press was founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers by small press and mainstream publishers. From the beginning, we linked our editorial policy to a poetics of allowance, encouraging women to write directly from their own creative imperatives, and to a poetics of inclusion that embraces racial and cultural diversity. Our early books were handset and printed two pages at a time on a basement letterpress. At the heart of the Press remain the pleasures of the written page, books that can be held and carried, and ongoing participation in a continually changing poetry community. With over forty-five years of publishing, we remain true to our commitment to bring out a wide range of voices, including the work of trans and genderqueer authors of our time.

Anhinga Press is nearing it's 50 year anniversay as a publisher of fine poetry. Some of our newest titles include the first book in our Visual Poetry Series, Circling the Start by Dixie Denman Junius. Other visual poets in our catalog are Karla Van Vliet and Terri Witek. 

We would like to host a bookfair table for the festival. Our catalog already contains several New Orleans/Louisiana poets, and we will have more coming in 2023.

Local poet Michelle Awad will be signing copies of her full-length poetry collection, Soul Trash, Space Garbage. Other items available for purchase include poetry and art prints, stickers, and bookmarks inspired by the collection.

Written during a time of significant upheaval, Soul Trash, Space Garbage is a collection for all of the messy things inside ourselves that we don't feel are worth committing to paper, or talking about, or confronting. The trash of our souls, the cosmic garbage of our beings. 

Its sections traverse three types of star death--from the death of relatively small to especially massive stars--exploring the beautiful, the tragic, and the bittersweet that comes with each of them as a metaphor for life, love, change, growth, sorrow, depression, destruction, joy, faith, and humanity. 

Most of all, though, it is a collection about hope. Soul Trash, Space Garbage gives us permission to see ourselves as celestial beings, as something magnificent and otherworldly, something that can neither be created nor destroyed--as something unapologetically infinite and imperfectly divine.