NOPF Technical Director Jonathan Penton founded UnlikelyStories.org in 1998. Since then, he has lent editorial and management assistance to a number of literary and artistic ventures, such as MadHat, Inc. and Big Bridge. He has organized literary performances, and performed himself, in places like Arkansas, California, Chihuahua, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Washington, state and DC. His poetry books are Last Chap (Vergin’ Press, 2004), Blood and Salsa and Painting Rust (Unlikely Books, 2006), Prosthetic Gods (New Sins Press/Winged City Chapbooks, 2008), Standards of Sadiddy (Lit Fest Press, 2016), and the free e-chap BACKSTORIES (Argotist Ebooks, 2017). He serves as Webmaster for this site, NOLAPoetry.com. Photo by David Carlisle.
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Unlikely Stories 20th Anniversary Reading
Words of Revolution: The creation of a literary journal as social movement
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Poets and Publishing
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Bursting out of the frame: Writing ekphrastic poetry and its connection to visual art
Unlikely Books / Rigorous Table
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