Podcasts about new orleans poetry festival

Dion O'Reilly chats with Roxi Power about her new book, The Songs that Objects Would Sing, diving deep into a work that that “is aflame, both with the literal wildfires ravaging the American West and with the slower smolder of personal grief.  Power's response to loss and disaster is a quirky plangent song…shot through with humor and underpinned by a rippling ostinato of lyric power” (Mark Scroggins).  With ease and humor, Dion and Roxi draw on postmodern and Buddhist theories, debating whether the presences that sing within the objects of Power's lines are “essences.”  “I feel you in the glint of objects sometimes.  That's all I know.” The white "ghost piano" on the book's cover, painted by her sister Sky Power, summons her mother's musical influence within the titular elegiacal poem. Power conjures and “unpaints” the psycho-geography of Texas and Wyoming, filled with the "ghost-scratchings" of memory that, like de Kooning's paintings, peak through to the surface of the “cinematic fictions she sews from scratch." She bends time in poems such as "The Aftermath of Future" where “Now is just one fold in the snake skin of time.”  Dion and Roxi discuss Power's trans-genre work and why she has been drawn to recombinant forms since her MFA work at Cornell University that include music, visual art, and film. Power has taught for 25 years at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she founded and edits the trans-genre anthology, Viz. Inter-Arts. Her next book is forthcoming from Carbonation Press in 2024. Power organizes national “Trans-Genre Cabarets,” and her own trans-genre work includes Live Film Narration (Neo-Benshi) performances of original scripts across the country, including the Tennessee Williams Festival, the New Orleans Poetry Festival, REDCAT, and St. Mark's Poetry Project.  Her next Neo-Benshi performance is Feb. 22 at Satori in Santa Cruz.   Power organizes events and makes podcasts for The Hive Poetry Collective.  Her most recent podcast is with Brenda Hillman. Farnaz Fatemi writes: “With both musical and emotional intelligence, not to mention a linguistic virtuosity, Power conjures hope amid her sonic discoveries—while still bearing lucid witness to personal and community grief.” C.S. Giscombe writes, “The first line of Roxi Power's incredible burst of poems lays down the law with one hand and sets things in motion with another—that is, she writes as if to remark on the coming noise made by fire, death, love…The many motions of this music, of these songs that objects would sing, will brush the reader with a difficult and worthy and joy. You can order her book here.    

Poets Bill Lavender, Sean F. Munro, and Rodrigo Toscano talk with Roxi Power about the wildly successful annual April event they organize: The New Orleans Poetry Festival. In the second half of the show, they read their own poems; the political poetics of each poem buzzes with national and global currents. Festival co-founder Bill Lavender reads from his opus-in-progress that he began writing on the day of the January 6 insurrection: City of God, inspired by Augustine of Hippo's book of the same name. Rodrigo Toscano: "We're not impresarios of poetic labor. We're here to build relationships. Atomization is what most Americans are experiencing. Alienation to the hilt. There's no better culture than New Orleans to attack that alienation...through the joyful celebration of the art that we've devoted our lives to: poetry." Find out more at https://www.nolapoetry.com/. Proposals for the April 18-21, 2024 New Orleans Poetry Festival are due December 15. Bill Lavender: https://www.lavenderink.org Sean F. Munro: seanfmunro.com Rodrigo Toscano: https://rodrigotoscano.com/

The first episode of the second season of the Ryne Show features my friend @bloodjetpoetry as we discuss poetry in New Orleans and the annual New Orleans Poetry Festival. To learn more about the New Orleans Poetry Festival go to nolapoetry.com

The first episode of the FInd Creative Expression podcast! I explain why I'm doing the podcast: I'm trying to focus on what unites us (art and creativity) instead of what divides us. I share what's going on with me artistically: upcoming acoustic set, upcoming book release, and two HUGE wins that happened for me this week. In an interview with publisher and poet, Bill Lavender, Bill discusses his background, what it's like to run Lavender Ink/Diálogos Books, the New Orleans Poetry Festival that he co-founded and plans for the 2021 festival, and his creative process.

in which Jane Lewty and i discuss the joys and perils of residencies, the challenge of arranging collections, and the value of all the work you've never published... where to find Jane's poetry: BRAVURA COOL - https://www.journal1913.org/publications/bravura-cool/ In One Form to Find Another - http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/books/in-one-form-to-find-another where to find Jane on instagram: janelewty other things referenced: Vermont Studio Center - https://vermontstudiocenter.org/ New Orleans Poetry Festival - https://www.nolapoetry.com/ New Orleans Writers' Residency - https://www.neworleanswritersresidency.org/ Stephan Spender - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/stephen-spender Baseball Haiku edited by Nanae Tamura and Cor van den Heuvel - https://books.wwnorton.com/books/Baseball-Haiku/ Jack Kerouac - http://jackkerouac.com/

In this special bonus episode of Novel Ideas, we go live from the New Orleans Poetry Festival, April 21-22, 2018. The Fest began in 2016 as the brainchild of Megan Burns of Trembling Pillow Press and Bill Lavender of Lavender Ink/Dialogos. It has grown exponentially since then, and it is a space for an inclusive and diverse group of writers to collaborate, share, and influence each other while also being immersed in the distinct literary culture of New Orleans. Candice brings you twelve, two to six minute conversations with a variety of voices from this intersectional fest of poets. We truly hope you enjoy listening to these conversations as much as we enjoyed having them. Uploaded on April 30th 2018.

David sits down with poet, performer and librettist Douglas Kearney to talk New Orleans Poetry Festival, work, process, opera, and all sorts of other things in this extended interview. Originally aired on April 19th 2018.

David sits down with poet, performer and librettist Douglas Kearney to talk New Orleans Poetry Festival, work, process, opera, and all sorts of other things in this extended interview. Originally aired on April 19th 2018.

On this week's edition of Notes from New Orleans, producers Kelley Crawford and Sarah Holtz meet A Scribe Called Quess , one of the poets appearing at the New Orleans Poetry Festival this weekend.

Poet Christopher Louis Romaguera joins us this week to talk about the Gulf Coast Association ​of ​Creative Writing Teachers Conference, writing poetry as a first generation American, his experience traveling  in Cuba and South America, his love of Mate, and the upcoming New Orleans Poetry Festival.

At the start of Poetry Month, we look ahead to New Orleans Poetry Festival at the end of the month, and Megan Burns visits to give us a Poetry Fest Survival Guide.

Wherein I shamelessly promote our new Goodreads discussion group, get VERY excited about new Sandman comics, rave about some excellent SFF books written by women of color, make a pretty bad joke about Octavia Butler's Fledgling, and talk New Orleans Poetry Festival with Bill Lavender. Here's more information on the fest: http://www.nolapoetry.com/ Like our new music? That's "Brave" by Jonathan Coulton, off his newest album Solid State. You can find it here: https://www.jonathancoulton.com/ Did I mention that we have a new Goodreads discussion group? Please join and talk to us about books! Here's the link: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/520115-tubby-coo-s-gets-lit We'll be slinging books and making mischief at the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival coming up March 23-25. Stop by and say hello! Here's their website: http://sasfest.org/ :00 Intro and Announcements 2:30 Book Industry News 11:44 Booksticle: 10 SF/F Books Written by Women of Color that will change your worldview 20:29 Book of the Month: Fledgling by Octavia Butler 28:19 Interview with publisher, poet, novelist, editor, and teacher Bill Lavender 39:56 Wrap-Up and Coming next month

Megan is the publisher at Trembling Pillow Press (tremblingpillowpress.com). She also hosts the Blood Jet Poetry Reading Series in New Orleans and is the co-founder of the New Orleans Poetry Festival (nolapoetry.com). She has been most recently published in Jacket Magazine, Callaloo, New Laurel Review, Trickhouse, and the Big Bridge New Orleans Anthology. Her poetry and prose reviews have been published in Tarpaulin Sky, Gently Read Lit, Big Bridge, and Rain Taxi. She has three books: Memorial + Sight Lines (2008), Sound and Basin (2013) and Commitment (2015) published by Lavender Ink. She has two recent chapbooks: Dollbaby (Horseless Press, 2013) and i always wanted to start over (Nous-Zot Press, 2014). Horse Less Press released her Twin Peaks chap, Sleepwalk With Me, in 2016. Her fourth collection, BASIC PROGRAMMING, will be released by Lavender Ink in 2018.