Raw Towns

 

For Bill Lavender

In the heart of deep hearts, no voodoo dolls

The shape of days, the hours we met and disappear, time

So fast it takes your breath away, how you can build a city 

But still be a stranger in it, the way a story of a man floating in flood

Waters in a plastic pool will image carve into the crenellations 

We call recollected history, in one lifetime you will have conversations

Barely recalled and words that turn swiftly the whole course & we 

Gather here, patchwork defense mirroring, look i have unthreaded 

The straight and narrow paths of arrival and departure: I would bet

Infinity in symbolic play, the truth of how any art meets and stabilizes 

The future namings, you were the only person who dared say it

That maybe it was worth it to abandon the safe measures of prescriptions 

That kept me numbed to wanting to die, imagined the length of travel 

Insanity must venture & if love is not our place than why do we come here

If love is not how we see one another, why are we paying attention 

I shed every safety net designed to cage in a whisper of what 

Could your mind be missing, to be set apart from self possession 

Campbell says, is the point of participation in a festival, the ritual 

Of disassociation masks so fine, and even in the knowing that 

We wear it, we revel in the apparition of this mythic state 

This state of how we crumble from fearsome field to invulnerable 

Abandoned structures, the shape of belief trembled along the loose 

Sounds unspoken for in any quantum reality, once there is

there is no undoing, the error of our lives was never 

Sleep’s frail hold or survival in the margins, it was 

Never seeing clearly how deeply the coding we designed seeped

The barycenter pulls the eye to a centered light but the burning 

Of that bright, unequivocal eye is as gentle as the sound of breathing 

Not to go gently, but that we do not go is the line’s off course entry 

Upcoming Readings at Blood Jet Poetry Series

Blood Jet Poetry Series at BJs in the Bywater, 4301 Burgundy
Every Wednesday Night, 8PM

All Features followed by the open mic hosted by Jimmy Ross

Coming Up:

Sept. 25: Joseph Wood and The Neighbors

Joseph P. Wood is the author of four books and five chapbooks of poetry, which include YOU. (Etruscan Press, forthcoming 2015), Fold of the Map (Salmon, forthcoming 2014), and Variations on an Innocent Axis (Brooklyn Arts Press, forthcoming 2014). A new manuscript, Broken Cage, is currently a finalist for the 2013 National Poetry Series competition. His poetry and criticism have been published in Arts & Letters Daily, BOMB, Boston Review, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Verse, among other journals. He teaches at The University of Alabama and is book review editor for Atticus Review.

The Neighbors are a collective of writers and musicians who gather in New Orleans to create music and occasionally lend each other butter. As all Neighbors have neighbors, they consist of an infinite number of artists unknown. But here tonight are:
Nathaniel Kostar on lyrics and vocals. Lee Beeacham on guitar and vocals. Justin Hatcher on congas, guitar and vocals.

Nathaniel Kostar is an MFA candidate in poetry at The University of New Orleans. He has been a poetry slam semi-finalist and finalist at the Bowery Poetry Club, The Nuyorican Poet’s Café, and Slam New Orleans. Every Friday for the next few months, his non-fiction travel series will be published on BurlesquePressLLC.com as he continues working towards the completion of his first full-length book, The Renaissance Man Project.  

Lee was born in Louisiana and raised in NC. From a young age his parents forced him to play the piano. Unfortunately this didn't take, but when he moved to New Orleans in 2009 he picked up the guitar. An avid fan of live music and the New Orleans’ lifestyle, Lee spends his free time playing music with friends, cooking, and working towards his MBA at UNO.  

Justin Hatcher was born in Baton Rouge and began playing guitar and singing about 3 years ago. He’s terrible at writing bios, but pretty awesome at playing guitar, so we bring him along and make stuff up about him as we go along. But these are three facts we know about Justin—he enjoys urban farming, chocolate almond milk, and 16oz cans of pbr after a hard day’s work.
Oct 2: Bill Lavender and Jamie Bernstein

Oct 9 Sara Jacobelli and Danniel Schoonebeck 

Links and Contacts regarding UNO's firing of Bill Lavender

Dave Brinks about UNO's decision to fire Bill Lavender and put UNO press on hiatus: 

Dear Friends,

Today the news from the New Orleans poetry community is very, very bad.

Poet BILL LAVENDER, director of University of New Orleans Press has been SACKED by the administrators at University of New Orleans.

Bill Lavender not only resurrected UNO Press, but under Bill's stewardship these past four years, UNO press has published an astounding 80+ excellent books nationally and internationally; and the press is by no means strapped for funding. UNO Press is currently regarded as one of the most prestigious and  financially self-sustainable university presses in all of the United States.

Be assured, this so-called "elimination" is purely POLITICALLY motivated, not otherwise.

Dean Susan Krantz of the University of New Orleans informed Bill Lavender of his "elimination" recently via email while Bill was still in Scotland fulfilling his duties as Director of UNO's Abroad Program.

IN THE NAME OF POETRY, please...

Stand with US!

SPEAK out!

Let them hear your VOICE loud and clear!

Pressure is mounting from all sectors near and far to EXPOSE the corruption and unethical conduct at the University of New Orleans at the very highest levels!

Bill Lavender's so-called "ELIMINATION"  is a devastating blow which will be felt deeply by poetry communities everywhere-- from New Orleans to New York to California to Brazil to Zimbabwe--and everywhere in between!

Let higher ed charlatans know you DETEST of their actions!

INFORM fatcat administrators that their professed soulessness toward POETRY is indeed a high act of treason to the art we LOVE!

They must answer for this singular INJUSTICE to POETRY and to poet Bill Lavender!

We need every nano of LOVE and SUPPORT you can give!

YOUR voice will be LEGION!

TURNABOUT!

Love, Strength & Peace Through Poetry Always!

Sincerest Regards,

Dave Brinks

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Please send a personal letter of objection to ALL email addresses listed:

University of New Orleans Provost Louis Paradise: lparadis@uno.edu

University of New Orleans President Peter Fos: pfos@uno.edu

University of New Orleans, College of Liberal Arts, Dean Susan Krantz: skrantz@uno.edu

University of New Orleans, Director of Creative fbarton@uno.edu* * * * * * * *

Sign Petition site:https://www.change.org/petitions/uno-president-peter-fos-provost-louis-paradise-and-dean-susan-krantz-keep-bill-lavender-as-the-director-of-uno-press-4


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Links to media reports covering this outrageous act (please post your personal comments to articles):

Inside Higher Education story: http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/08/07/u-new-orleans-says-press-hiatus-will-be-brief

NOLA.com story: http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2012/08/visionary_director_of_uno_pres.html

Poetry Foundation story: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/08/university-of-new-orleans-press-on-hiatus/#.UCKiEZ-N5Fk.facebook

Publisher's Weekly story: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/53459-uno-press-is-shut-down-director-bill-lavender-ousted.html

Times-Picayune story: http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2012/08/furor_over_shuttered_uno_press.html

The CHRONICLE of Higher Education story: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/director-of-u-of-new-orleans-press-loses-job-amid-budget-cuts/46549

Another story from Publisher's Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/53474-with-director-s-ouster-uno-press-faces-uncertain-future-.html

Another story from Inside Higher Education: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/06/university-new-orleans-plans-put-university-press-hiatus

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Poetry Month Events in NOLA: It's almost OUR month

You know I love a whole month in which the rest of the world thinks about poetry.

This Thursday, 17 Poets! welcomes poet, artist, and teacher Sunday Shae Parker to the stage with a multimedia performance, 8 PM. www.17poets.com

April brings a whirlwind of ruth weiss events as she returns to New Orleans for the first time in 61 years.

Her book DESERT JOURNAL is just out from Trembling Pillow Press.

ruth weiss events:

Tuesday, April 3, 7:15PM: The Black Widow Salon at Crescent City Books
For info. and to RSVP as seating is limited, email: books@crescentcitybooks.com

Wednesday, April 4th, 7:30PM: Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center presents rare screenings of filmmaker ruth weiss' work including "The Brink" a 40 minute film that Stan Brakhage called "one of the most important San Francisco films of the period."  visit: zetgeistinc.net

Thursday, April 5th, 8PM at 17 Poets! Literary and Performance Series:  ruth weiss reads and signs DESERT JOURNAL with the POET OF NEW ORLEANS BRASS BAND featuring Joe Zeno, Sr. on tuba; Christopher Davis, trumpet; Chad Moore, clarinet; Mark Francis, trombone; and Clyde CM3 on drums with special guest Hal Davis on on-da-log

from the latest issue of Entrepôt (issue 7) 

April 10th head over to Octavia Books to hear Lee Meitzen Grue read from DOWNTOWN (Trembling Pillow Press)  and Niyi Osundare read from City Without People (Black Widow press), 6pm.  (Osundare's poem "Raindrum" was recently selected by the US Olympics committee to represent his native Nigeria in the winter olympics. )

If you're in Baton Rouge, head over to the River Writers Reading Series at Boudreaux's to hear New Orleans poets Bill Lavender, reading from Memory Wing (Black Widow Press) and Geoff Munsterman, editor of Entrepôt. Tuesday, April 10th, 8PM

April 12, 8PM 17 Poets! Literary and Performance Series welcomes poet Bruce Andrews as well as poet and OffBeat writer Alex Rawls


April 19th: Baton Rouge Poets Christopher Shipman and Vincent Cellucci (hosts of the River Writers Series) read and sign books along with Portland poet Allison Cobb, 8PM

Cover by Tracey McTague

April 20th: New Orleans Museum of Art features a panel and reading hosted by Susan Larson with poets Megan Burns and Gina Ferrara and artist Tricia Vitrano as part of their Friday Night Events, 5:30-7:30

Can't be in New Orleans 'cause you in Lafayette: no problem, cher!
On Saturday, April 21st, at 7 p.m., CARPE DIEM! GELATO-ESPRESSO BAR invites the public to spend a spring evening experiencing poetry and performance art while enjoying gelato, espresso, tea, and pastries when it hosts "VOICES IN SPRING: Poetry by Marthe Reed and Performance by Bonny McDonald"

April 26th: Book Signing and Reading by Moira Crone of her new novel, The Not Yet (UNO press)

Poets at "The Mardi Gras": A retro"spectacle"

Poet Paul Chasse (who left us too soon) with wife Beth Chasse

Poets Jonathan Kline and Gina Ferrara

Poets Skip Fox and Christian Bök

How'd they get all those beads?

Another Gina Ferrara pic from a later year and Nancy Dixon

Tony Torn and Poet Lee Ann Brown

Poets Ed Sanders and Dave Brinks at Zulu hashing out their plan for coconut success

Poet Bill Myers 

Poet Bill Lavender

Happy Mardi Gras, Ya'll

17 Poets! Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events At 17 Poets! Literary and Performance Series

Gold Mine Saloon, 701 Dauphine, New Orleans, LA 

Poetry in the French Quarter Since 2003

Every Thursday, 8PM

www.17poets.com

Poets Dave Brinks and Bill Lavender, Mardi Gras, 2008

February 9: Bill Lavender signs and reads from his new book Memory Wing 
(Black Widow Press, 2011)

Flautist Eluard Burt,  March 2006

February 16th: Musical Performances and Tributes to flautist and mentor Eluard Burt,

with readings and performances by Kichea Burt, Dave Brinks, Lee Meitzen Grue, 

Eric Burt, Cyril Neville, Gayneille Neville, and

more.  

 Nicole Peyrafitte, 2005

Pierre Joris, 2005

John Sinclair, 2006

February 23: John Sinclair performs with his Blues Scholars, Performance by

Albany poets Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte

March 1: Poet Rodger Kamenetz

March 8: Poets Arturo Pfister and Valentine Pierce

March 15th: NYC Poet Bill Zavatsky and  Dr. Jerry Ward, Jr.

March 22: TBA

March 29: Fiction Writer Moira Crone reads and signs her new book from 
UNO Press, The Not Yet

April 5: jazz beat poet ruth weiss

April 12: Bruce Andrews

April 19th: Baton Rouge Poet Chris Shipman reads and signs his new book

 along with poet Vincent Celluci

April 26: Maxine Cassin Tribute

More Dates Coming Soon. All features followed by the open mic. 

All images copyright 17 Poets! Literary and Performance Series and Megan Burns.

Poetry Readings, Rivers, & Memory's Passage

Dave and I will be reading tomorrow night over in Baton Rouge.

Details: River Writers presents poets DAVE BRINKS and MEGAN BURNS at 8pm on Tuesday January 31st at Boudreaux and Thibodeaux’s downtown Baton Rouge! Boudreaux & Thibodeaux's 214 3rd St # 2D, 8PM






In other news: 
17 Poets! Literary and Performance Series starts back up Feb. 9th with a reading and book signing by Bill Lavender from his new book Memory Wing (Black Widow Press).

www.17poets.com

We have a fantastic line up of poets coming to read this season at 17 Poets! Dave will be sending out the announcement for the season via our email list soon. If you want to join our list, you can go to our website and fill out the join our email list form. 

The next issue of Entrepôt, a double issue, will also be available Feb. 9 at 17 Poets!

as well as available online from tremblingpillowpress.com 

and at select book stores. 

And here is my book recommendation of the day: Richard Froude's newest collection The Passenger from Skylight Press came in the mail. Not only does it have one of the best covers of 2012, but right in line with Froude's previous collection Fabric, this book weaves lines, words and time round and round into a skein of complex memories and remembrances, some yours, some Froude's. The title refers to you, and Froude is your guide taking you into the field of mathematical impossibilities and traipsing into the auras of those once inhabited by the likes of Prévert and Artaud. It's a fantastic journey: you will need to wing your eyes and hold on tight. 

Black Widow Salon at Crescent City Books

This Monday marks the return of Crescent City Books' Black Widow Salon hosted by Michael Zell. At 7:00 PM, join poet, publisher and author of the newly released Memory Wing, Bill Lavender

as he reads from and discusses this work. 

The Black Widow Salon, sponsored by Joe Phillips and Susan Wood of Black Widow Press and hosted by Michael Allen Zell, is a monthly Monday event, existing to dig deeper into the literary arts.  November 14^th: Bill Lavender.  December 5^th: Josephine Sacabo.  Crescent City Books at 230 Chartres St. from 7-9 p.m.  Seating is limited.  RSVP’s preferred.  More information at crescentcitybooks.com

Memory Wing by Bill Lavender

A memoir in verse that explores the outer reaches of truth: of memory, language and art. Loosely based on the tripartite structure of The Divine Comedy, this poem appears as a simple memoir in lyrical and immediately accessible language, yet it works by accumulation to question the very fact of memory and the foundations of truth and identity. This is a poem that reads as easily as a memoir but which is as dense with allusion as one of The Cantos. As Andrei Codrescu has said of it: "This is a grand American long poem Doc Williams would be proud of."

Advance comments on Memory Wing:
Delving with brilliant image precision into the power of the past, and chanting in plain lyric to the ghosts of his mother and father & the futurity of his sons, Bill Lavender takes us back, down, deep into a psychological Arkansas and New Orleans that resonate with Dante's three part journey. In the vast field of felt memory, he guides us into subtle territories of torment, recognition and reconciliation that are Lavender's contemporary equivalents of Dante's inferno, purgatory and paradise. Bill Lavender's Memory Wing is a contemporary autobiographical masterpiece.
-Rodger Kamenetz

The poet's mother lives, dies in an Alzheimer's wing. The poet takes wing, remembering more because his mother remembers so little. He takes his past-and some of hers-under his wing. There is no waiting in the wings here; everything's laid out on memory's stage, surreal as the Roman memory exercises ordained. The poet may be left wing, but he steps out from under the wing of Arkansas, Blake-like tragedy, and Dante, into the elegiac present, where parents cede to children and in all their dreams come responsibilities and their evasions. The OED's 12th definition best defines wing as "part of a spectral line where the intensity tails off to nothing at either side of it," but that fails to describe the utter intensity of the flight between points in Lavender's book. This non-fiction epic poem flies through past, present, and hallucinated futures at the speed of unpunctuated sound.
-Susan M. Schultz

What a grand concerto! Read this epic eulogy and weep! Lavender is a resplendent Virgil traversing the woods of his memory, which coincides at unexpected places with our own. I'm happy to see the terse minimal suitcase of his lyrical self unpacked and overflowing. This is a grand American long poem Doc Williams would be proud of.
-Andrei Codrescu

Bill Lavender shifts language in rare combinations that unsettle the reader. Memory Wing is no different except that it takes a lifetime to inhabit, but lets us dip into that proper distance between knowing and learning where we hold down our own memories for comparison and where we sit in the same tragedy and splendor….
-Megan Burns

Bill Lavender is a poet, editor, and teacher living in New Orleans. He is the publisher of Lavender Ink, a small press devoted to contemporary poetry, and he is Managing Editor of UNO Press at the University of New Orleans. Besides his dozen books published to date his poems have appeared in numerous print and web journals and anthologies, and his essays and theoretical writings have been published in Contemporary Literature andPoetics Today, among many others.


Coming in November 2011
ISBN13: 978-0-9837079-0-5
219 pages $19.95

Entrepôt: New Orleans' Newest Literary Monthly

Entrepôt is New Orleans' newest literary monthly featuring contributing articles from Dr. Jerry Ward, Jr., Bill Lavender, John Sinclair, and Dennis Formento as well as contributions from Publisher Dave Brinks, book reviews by Megan Burns and edited under the helm of Editor-In-Chief Geoff Munsterman. Articles discuss New Orleans history in poetry and publishing including a look at journals such as Climax, Les Cenelles, and publications from Loujon Press, such as their Outsider journal. John Sinclair examines the history of music in New Orleans looking at early jazz contributors including Buddy Bolden and Edward 'Kid' Ory.

Information about Trembling Pillow Press' first Bob Kaufman Book Prize in Poetry can also be found in Entrepôt as well as online at Trembling Pillow Press.

More information on Entrepôt including ordering information and submissions of article ideas can be found at the Trembling Pillow press website: www.tremblingpillowpress.com

17 Poets! Fall 2011: Poetry in New Orleans Celebration

17 Poets! Presents its fall 2011 season celebration

Doors open early at 7:00 PM for viewing and discussion

"Magazines have come and gone, people have come and gone, and so much of what we were intensely into has become only a flickering memory."

-- Tom Dent

Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 7:00PM, the GOLD MINE SALOON and 17 Poets! Literary & Performance Series will host an OPEN DISCUSSION and EXHIBIT featuring dozens of "original" NEW ORLEANS LITERARY publications (books, magazines & other epherma) relating to the Crescent City's HISTORICAL contributions to ARTS & LETTERS.

Discussion Participants Include:  KALAMU YA SALAAM, LEE MEITZEN GRUE, DENNIS FORMENTO, DR. JERRY W. WARD, RODGER KAMENETZ, MONA LISA SALOY, JOHN CLARK, NANCY HARRIS, JOHN TRAVIS, RALPH ADAMO, BILL LAVENDER, NANCY DIXON, JIM CASS and many others from the New Orleans community.

This event will be followed by a poetry reading featuring GINA FERRARA (celebrating her b-day!) and OPEN MIC hosted by Jimmy Ross. 

Also, fresh off the presses: New Orleans' newest literary monthly newspaper: 

Entrepôt featuring articles by contributing editors Dr. Jerry Ward, Jr, Bill Lavender, John Sinclair, Dennis Formento, as well as book reviews by Megan Burns and essays from publisher Dave Brinks. For more info: www.tremblingpillowpress.com

---Some of the NEW ORLEANS RELATED PUBLICATIONS featured in this EXHIBIT will include:

NOLA (1840's)

CREOLE VOICES ed. by Edward Maceo Coleman, 1945; A Centennial Edition celebrating LES CENELLES, the first African-American anthology of poetry published in New Orleans in 1845, ed. by Armand Lanusse.

NOLA (1850's)

Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein, 1854-55.

NOLA (1870's)

Old Creole Days by George Washington Cable, 1879.

The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn featuring illustrated sketches from the Daily City Item.

NOLA (1880's)

Gombo Zhebes by Lafcadio Hearn, 1885.

Chita, A Memory of last Island by Lafcadio Hearn, 1888.

NOLA (1890's)

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar, 1899.

The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable, 1899.

NOLA (1910's)

KRAZY KAT: The Comic Art of George Herriman, 1913.

NOLA (1920's)

Double Dealer, Issue 2; ed. by Julius Weis Friend and Basil Thompson, 1921.

NOLA (1930's)

Blues: A Bisexual Monthly ed. by Parker Tyler and Charles Henri Ford, 1933.

NOLA (1940's)

Iconograph, Issue 3 and Supplement; ed. by Kenneth L. Beaudoin, 1946.

NOLA (1950's)

Old French Quarter News ed. by Bruce Lippincott, 1950.

New Orleans Poetry Journal Press ed. by Maxine Cassin, various titles 1954-1982.

CLIMAX: A Creative Review in the Jazz Spirit, Issues 1 and 2; ed. by Robert Cass, 1955-56.

NOLA (1960's)

Outsider, Issues 1, 2, 3 and 4/5; ed. by John and Louise Webb, 1961-63, 1968-69.

A Touch of Recognition by Maxine Cassin, 1962.

Order and Chaos by Henry Miller, Loujon Press, 1966.

No Big Thing ed. by Eugene "Yictove" M. Turk, 1967.

The Free Southern Theater ed. by Tom Dent, Richard Schechner and Gilbert Moses, 1969.

NOLA EXPRESS ed. by Darlen Fife and Robert Head, 1969.

After Word Comes Weird by Darlene Fife and Robert Head, 1969.

Dancing by Al Young, 1969.

Groove, Bang, And Jive Around by Steve Cannon, 1969.

New Laurel Review founded by Alice Claudel and ed. by Lee Meitzen Grue, 1960's to present.

NOLA (1970's)

Insomnia or The Devil at Large by Henry Miller, Loujon Press, 1970.

Magnolia Street by Tom Dent, 1972.

The Black Collegian ed. by Kalamu ya Salaam, 1974.

nkombo, Issue 9; ed. by Kalamu ya Salaam and Tom Dent, 1974.

Why I Live in the Forest by James Nolan, 1974.

Barataria, Issues 1-4; ed. by Louis Gallo and Ralph Adamo, 1974.

Distaff: Forum for Southern Women ed. by Mary Gehman, 1975.

Sadness at the Private University by Ralph Adamo, 1977.

French Quarter Poems by Lee Meitzen Grue, 1979.

NOLA (1980's)

Southern Black Cultural Newsletter, Issue 1; ed. by Tom Dent, 1980.

What Moves Is Not the Wind by James Nolan, 1980.

Quilt, Issue 1; ed. by Al Young and Ishmael Reed, 1981.

Blue Lights and Other River Songs by Tom Dent, 1982.

Fell Swoop ed. by Joel Dailey, 1983 to present.

Songbook by Everette Maddox, 1982.

NIGHTSEASONS by Peter Cooley, 1983.

Charlemagne: A Song of Gestures by John Gery, 1983.

Exquisite Corpse ed. by Andrei Codrescu, 1987-2005.

Maple Leaf Rag Anthology ed. by John Travis, 1980 to present.

Autopsy by Kay Murphy, 1985.

BODY AND SOUL by Julie Kane, 1987.

Contours for Ritual by Martha McFerren, 1988.

A History of Women and New Orleans ed. by Mary Gehman and Nancy Ries, 1988.

Blue Print by Yictove, 1989.

The Ape Woman Story by Nancy Harris, 1989.

Portals Press ed. by John Travis, various titles, 1989 to present.

Mesechabe: A Journal of Surregionalism ed. by John Clark and Dennis Formento, 1980-90's.

NOLA (1990's)

Word Up: Black Poetry of the 80's from the Deep South ed. by Kalamu ya Salaam, 1990.

The Missing Jew by Rodger Kamenetz, 1992.

Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa, 1992.

WOMEN IN CARS by Martha McFerren, 1992.

The Jew in the Lotus by Rodger Kamenetz, 1994.

Poet-Chief: The Native American Poetics of Waly Whitman and Pablo Neruda by James Nolan, 1994.

New Orleans Review: The Other South vol. 25, no.1-2; ed. by Ralph Adamo, 1995.

The Free People of Color of New Orleans: An Introduction by Mary Gehman, 1996.

New Orleans Review: An Other South vol. 21, no.2 ed. by Ralph Adamo, 1999.

Rogue Wave ed. by Beth McCormack, 1996-2004.

Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement by Tom Dent, 1997.

Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry ed. by Jerry W. Ward, 1997.

All Saints: New and Selected Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey, 1997.

Ain't No Spring Chicken: Selected Poems by Ahmos Zu-Bolton, 1998.

360 Degrees, A Revolution of Black Poets ed. by Kalamu ya Salaam, 1998.

From a Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets, ed. by Kalamu ya Salaam, 1998.

Belief Blues by Kay Murphy, 1998.

rogue embryo by Camille Martin, 1999.

I Am New Orleans and Other Poems by Marcus B. Christian; ed. by Rudolph Lewis and Amin Sharif, 1999.

Lower 48 by Joel Dailey, 1999.

Lavender Ink ed. by Bill Lavender, various titles, 1990's to present.

NOLA (2000's)

Frozen Embraces by Biljana Obradovic, bilingual, English and Serbian, 2000.

Fattening Frogs for Snakes by John Sinclair, 2002.

Another South: Experimental Writing in the South, ed. by Bill Lavender and Hank Lazer, 2002.

Pages from the Book of the Sun: New and Selected Poems by Niyi Osundare, 2002.

Rhythm & Booze by Julie Kane, 2003.

All Fires the Fire by Andy Young, 2003.

Words of Fire: An Anthology of the Dragon's Den Poetry Night, ed. by Heidi Peite, 2003.

The Altar of This Moment by beverly Rainbolt, 2003.

If Books Were Bricks by Jimmy Ross, 2003.

Jayne Mansfield's Dog by Alex Rawls, 2004.

YAWP: A Journal of Poetry & Art ed. by Dave Brinks, 2004 to present.

Appetite by Jean-Mark Sens,, 2004.

Red Beans And Ricely Yours: Poems by Mona Lisa Saloy, 2005.

Xavier Review vol. 25, no. 2; ed. by Richard Collins, 2005.

MEENA: A Bilingual Literary Magazine, Arabic and English, Issues 1-3; ed. by Andy Young and Khaled Hegazzi, 2005 to present.

New Orleans Review vol. 31, no. 2; ed. by Christopher Chambers, 2006.

Blind Visionz by Michael "Quess" Moore, 2006.

What Gets Into Us by Moira Crone, 2006.

Simpatico Press ed. by Daniel Kerwick, 2006 to present.

Solid Quarter ed. by Megan Burns, 2006 to present.

Geometry of the Heart by Valentine Pierce, 2007.

Roach Opera by Christian Champagne, 2007.

University of New Orleans Press, ed. by Bill Lavender, various titles, 2007 to present.

All Mothers Are Boats by Herbert Kearney, 2008.

aepoetics by Thaddeus Conti, 2008.

Memorial + Sight Lines by Megan Burns, 2008.

Constance, Issues 1-2; ed. by Patrick Strange and Eric Kiesewetter, 2006, 2008.

The Katrina Papers by Jerry W. Ward, 2008.

Olympia Street by Michael Ford, 2008

The Richard Wright Encyclopedia ed. by Jerry W. Ward and Robert J. Butler, 2008.

Spherical Woman: Collected Poems by Kysha Brown Robinson, 2009.

The Caveat Onus by Dave Brinks, 2009.

The Parade Goes On Without You by Andrea Boll, 2009.

TRANSFIXION by Bill Lavender, 2009.

My Name Is New Orleans: 40 Years of Poetry and Other Jazz by Arturo Pfister, 2009.

Slosh Models by Brett Evans, 2009.

Etheral Avalanche by Gina Ferrara, 2009.

The Loup Garou by Moose Jackson, 2009.

NOLA (2010's)

What Can't Be Lost ed. by Lee Barclay, 2010.

Unsolicited Poems by David Rowe, 2010.

Dorado, Issue 1; ed. by Peter Anderson, 2009 to present.

A Howling in the Wires ed. by Sam Jasper and Mark Folse, 2010.

According to the Drunken Elders of My Past by Geoff Munstermann, 2010.

Downtown by Lee Meitzen Grue, 2011.

SONG OF PRAISE: Homage To John Coltrane by John Sinclair, 2011.

The War of the Pews: A Personal Account of St. Augustine Church in New Orleans by Rev. Jerome G LeDoux, S.V.D., Margaret Media, 2011.