i am reading After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz & it is fantastic but also it is breaking my heart how much i wish my friend @EllisAveryNYC could have read it.

FREE E-BOOK! Thanks Haymarket Books! What a great gift during this week. In light of the recent round of attacks on the freedom to read, this book has been made free for all to download. Get your copy. Link in bio.

Coming up on 13 years since New Orleans' Archbishop said that alligator is a part of the FISH family, thus acceptable to consume during Lent.

Tonight in the City of N.O. Bar Redux & Unlikely Books present four Unlikely Saints: Matthew Hupert in from New York City, w local authors Alex Jennings, Brad Richard, and Cate Root. 8pm, Bar Redux 801 Poland Ave

"With my love I make you a forest. I learn to listen to clouds, to work earth and to read heaven, in your lap." #TodaysPoem from Camouflage by Lupe Gómez, translated by Erín Moure (Хамуляк) (2019 Asymptote Journal) bit.ly/3Y6ASsk

Join us again as we keep poetry safe, NOPF Year 8: April 13-16, 2023 in New Orleans. The proposal period for panels & readings has now closed BUT we have a few table spaces still available. #neworleanspoetryfest #nopf #neworleans #poetry #community #poets #writers #artists

Deeply disturbed by the arrest of WSJ journalist Evan #Gershkovich - not that Putin's Russia has any kind of #freedomofthepress

#FreeEvanGershkovich theguardian.com/world/2023/apr…

Today 2-7PM at Cafe Istanbul Louisiana State Poet Laureate Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy reads w Melinda Palacio, A Scribe Called Quess & more, POETRY WITHOUT BORDERS / Poesia Sin Fronteras Words & Music Festival to celebrate Black & Brown Poets in the City of N.O. #nolapoets

Breaking News: Harry Belafonte, the barrier-breaking singer, actor and activist who became a major force in the civil rights movement, has died at 96. nyti.ms/444e0xM

looking forward to this discussion w two of my fave NOLA poets

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96 ow.ly/Yqu3104ES5S

The Queen will live forever. Rest in Power, Ms Tina.

A beautiful interview between these two! "I’m a poet, but I think that the notion of us just being creative writers is better than segregating us in terms of like, “here’s the poets, here’s the fiction writers, here’s the non-fiction writers.” We’re creative writers, you know?"

ok i have 23 hrs of notes & ideas for my 3- hr RESPECT THE ROMANCE in-person workshop Aug 5 in NOLA New Orleans Writers Workshop Can't wait to talk happy-ever-afters #RomanceWriting #nolawriters #WritingCommunity

One of the patron saints of all misfitted, weird, maladjusted, wonderful, miraculous oddities.

🔎 Paris Style Paris-based Curious Minds favourite Lisa Pasold leads this exploration of how Parisians created their see-and-be-seen city, from iconic fashion to innovative urban planning. hotdocs.ca/whats-on/films…

Unlikely Stories Mark V: honored to have a poem in this Fuck Florida issue, which stares Florida's current fascist experiment dead in the eye w essays art & poetry unlikelystories.org Unlikely Stories #neworleanspoetry #neworleanspublishers #fuckfascism

Le Théâtre de la Ville devient, ou plutôt redevient le Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt. C'est un symbole fort, et je vous explique pourquoi. Retrouvez mon interview sur la culture à Paris dans Boulevard de la Seine sur @France3tv.

Heartsick for everyone in Marrakech & regions this morning. #seismemaroc