17 Poets! 2013 Spring Schedule (Feb-June)

Last Thursday was the opening of our 2013 Spring Season (10 Years!)  with a contributor reading from FUCK poems and John Sinclair also with music by Katarina Boudreaux and our amazing poets at a completely full list for the open mic hosted by Jimmy Ross.

Fuck Poems anthology Contributors & (right) editor Vincent Cellucci

Poets Dave Brinks and Andrei Codrescu read this Thursday at 8PM. Codrescu and Brinks will both be signing new books available for purchase at the front door.

Here's what we have planned the rest of the season:

17 POETS! LITERARY & PERFOMRANCE SERIES

Spring 2013 @ Gold Mine Saloon, 701 Dauphine St. (www.17poets.com)

Feb 21: Andrei Codrescu / Dave Brinks

Feb 28: Barbara Henning / Jamey Jones

March 7: Bernadette Mayer / Philip Good

March 14: HiIlary G. / Peter Orr / Anis Shivani

March 21: Rodger Kamenetz/ JS Makkos

March 28: Katarina Boudreaux / Maurice Ruffin

April 4: Brett Evans / Mary Elizabeth

April 11: Gina Myers / Nasimiyu Murumba

April 18: Kelly Davio / Freddi Evans / Kit Robinson

April 25: Bill Zavatsky / Michael Tod Edgerton

May 2: Cyril Neville & Friends, Jazz Poetry Session

May 9: Christian Champagne / Bryan Spitzfaden

May 16: Mel Coyle / Quo Vadis Gex Breaux / Asali DeVan

May 23: Megan Kaminski / Jonathan Brown

May 30: Chris Carrier / Quess

June 6: Megan Burns / Brad Richard

Join us in celebrating hosting poetry in the French Quarter for the last 10 Years! 

New Chapbook from Dancing Girl Press

a city/ bottle boned by Megan Burns



I'm very happy that this chapbook came out on Bob Dylan's birthday. So happy I sang Song to Woody last night at 17 Poets! after reading some Bernadette Mayer poems to celebrate May Birthday poets. Some other May Birthday poets that were read aloud by our community of writers included Robert Creeley, Robin Blaser, Theodor Roethke, Arthur Cravan and others.

There's a great Jacket essay on Arthur Cravan and his relationship to Mina Loy here. 

Another Beautiful Tsatsawassa Poetry Reading

We've just returned from the annual Tsatsawassa Poetry Reading at Bernadette Mayer and Phil Good's house. It was a smashing success, and we brought our 18 month old Issa. And while US Airways tried to put a damper on all things lovely by rerouting us for a third layover in Charlotte (U Suck US Airways!) we did make it back to New Orleans in one piece. And later, around midnight our bag full of poetry books made it home via courier service.

Some people who called in to read at the Annual Poetry Reading:

Ed Sanders from Woodstock

Andrei Codrescu from the Ozarks

Nicole Peyrafitte and Pierre Joris from France

Rodger Kamenetz from New Orleans

And live in person, hosted by Poet Dave Brinks:

Poets included Bernadette Mayer, Phil Good, Brenda Coultas, Phil Johnson, Megan Burns, Brendan Lorber, Tracey McTague, Peter Gizzi, Tom Gizzi, Dara Wier, Shafer Hall, Paulette Swatzfager, Susan Deer Cloud, Geronimo, John Roche, Michael Ruby, Deborah Poe and others who I either can't remember at the moment or I missed as I chased Issa around the house and through the yard. My apologies if you are not here, just comment and correct me. It was fabulous, and I will upload pictures once I transfer them from one device to the other.

In addition to Poetry, Bernadette took Dave and I to see the Cohoes falls. We also ate at a fancy Italian Restaurant called Gregory's House or La Perla. And the weather was much more friendly than the 100+ degrees that we returned to in New Orleans.