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Ok, the kids are gone until Wednesday and Dave and I are awash in adult activities... and by that I mean sleeping in, having coffee, taking ...

I've spent most of my life not winning things, so I'm absolutely stunned to have won this fantastic handmade gift basket from New Or...

Thursday, December 16 at 7:30 17 Poets! Literary & Performance Series presents an outstanding double-bill featuring JULIAN SEMILIAN and ...

Trembling Pillow Press will be displaying Broadsides from local New Orleans poets at an upcoming Artfully Aware Art Show. These broadsides r...

I've been really bad about updating this blog, but Issa is now mobile and partially walking so she is no longer content to sit quietly w...

Thursday: Nov. 11, 7:30 PM David Rowe reading from his new book, Unsolicited Poems (Verna Press, 2010). http://www.17poets.com/ for more in...

Nov. 4th, 7:30 PM at the Gold Mine Saloon 17 Poets! Literary & Performance Series presents a Bi-lingual poetry reading celebrating legen...

I will be reading tonight at 7PM at the Columns Hotel on St. Charles Ave. as part of the 1718 Reading Series that is sponsored by Loyola Uni...

This Thursday, October 28th at the Gold Mine Saloon, 17 Poets! features: ******* CHRISTINE TRIMBO ******* About the Poet, Christine Trimbo...

Thursday, October 21, 7:30 p.m. BUD FAUST book release party, signing & reading of Great Moments in New Orleans History, Volume 2, Intro...

Thursday, October 14, 2010, 7:30 PM 17 Poets! Literary & Performance Series presents an evening with poet MOOSE JACKSON, book release p...

Michael Gizzi (1949-2010) "Description ends at death. A Robotic realm of light bears this out: tears don't fall in outer spac...

17 Poets! Literary & Performance Series presents an evening with poet ANDREI CODRESCU signing & reading from his new book The Poetry...

My review of Allison Cobb's book, Green-Wood, is in the new print issue of Rain Taxi. Also, I have a poem in the new issue of So and So ...

1001 NIGHTS NEW ORLEANS STORYTELLING FESTIVAL: Two nights of Creole Arabesque & Transylvanian-Moldavian Fascination Gold Mine Saloon, 70...

17 Poets! Literary & Performance Series is excited to be back at the Gold Mine Saloon after a brief summer hiatus. So much to celebrate...

Seriously, Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics , where have you been all my life. This journal rocks, and I am biased because I happen to a...

Check out all the awesome updates/repairs/ renovations nearing completion at the building, beautiful photo taken by Nicole Peyrafitte. Read...

Shot by Christine Hume Counterpath Press, 2010 I've been reading this amazing new book by poet Christine Hume. Doubly interesting to me...