River Writers

The Tusa / Haas / River

2012-02-07T10:20:00.000-08:00

River Writers Presents the TUSA / HAAS / RIVER:

readings by Chris Tusa and Benjamin Haas

FEB 7TH @ 10PM!

214 3rd St # 2D Baton Rouge, LA 70801-1315
(225) 636-2442 http://225riverwriters.blogspot.com/

Back to our original time at 10pm, The River brings back two oldies but goldies to the third installment of the spring lineup! Benjamin Haas and Chris Tusa will bring everything they have to the river this coming Tuesday February 7th at 10pm! You will not be disappointed. The river has started its 2012 roar in full force and these two will only push us further along. Bring it to the river and the river will bring it to you! More info about our awesome guests here:

Chris Tusa was born and raised in New Orleans. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Florida. His debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, was published by The University of West Alabama in March of 2009. With the help of a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, he was able to complete his debut collection of poems, Haunted Bones, which was published by Louisiana Literature Press in 2006. His work has appeared in Connecticut Review, Texas Review, Prairie Schooner, New Delta Review, South Dakota Review, The Southeast Review, Passages North, Spoon River, storySouth, and others. Aside from teaching in the English Department at LSU, he also serves as Editor for Fiction Southeast. He is currently working on a collection of flash fiction entitled Mean Blood and on two novels: In the Valley of Falling Stars, a dark tragicomedy set in post-Katrina New Orleans featuring a middle-aged man who’s convinced his wife has been chosen by God to give birth to Jesus Christ; and a second novel set in New Orleans in 1878 involving a young girl who is abducted to work as a prostitute in a brothel.

Benjamin Haas is a graduate student in performance studies at LSU. He has performed in numerous shows and spaces in the last year but most recently directed and performed in Tricycling, a multimedia performance event in the HopKins Black Box. Benjamin's work has focused on combining philosophy, performance, and popular culture and has taken many forms including: shows, workshops, essays, poems, and performative writing. He has published poems in The New Delta Review, ditch, Clockwise Cat, and Kerouac's Dog. This is to be his second River Writers featured appearance, though he most looks forward to reading the exquisite corpse at the end of the night, if allowed.

2012-01-26T12:23:00.000-08:00

River Writers Presents the Brinks / Burns / River

A Reading by Poets Dave Brinks and Megan Burns

Boudreaux & Thibodeaux's

214 3rd St # 2D Baton Rouge, LA 70801-1315
(225) 636-2442

River Writers presents poets, Dave Brinks and Megan Burns at 8pm on Tuesday January 31^st at Boudreaux and Thibodeaux’s downtown Baton Rouge. Just up the river from New Orleans, these lauded poets, performers, publishers, editors and essayists bring with them the punch only great poetry can throw. The muse will show her face, and the river will expose its muddy bank. This will truly be a great reading! Come out and give an ear to the river! Read more about these impressive poets below!

Dave Brinks is a New Orleans poet, essayist, journalist and biographer. His family heritage is Acadian French and Choctaw. Brinks is publisher of Trembling Pillow Press books as well as the magazine ENTREPÔT, The Brain Trust News in Arts and Letters. He is also editor-in-chief of YAWP: A Journal of Poetry & Art, director of 17 POETS! Literary & Performance Series, and founder of the New Orleans School for the Imagination. His works have appeared in journals, magazines and anthologies throughout the United States, Canada and overseas. Additionally they have been featured on NPR, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, National Geographic Traveler and Louisiana Cultural Vistas. Brinks is the author of six books including the critically acclaimed The Caveat Onus (Black Widow Press, 2009). His latest book, The Secret Brain: Collected Poems 1996-2012, is forthcoming (Black Widow Press, 2012). Brinks is currently working on a thorough investigative report on New Orleans' seminal contributions to American letters, art and music (1845 - present) inspired by the recent discovery of dozens of artifacts, letters, manuscripts, photographs, art works, and jazz recordings in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans in the summer of 2011.

Megan Burns is a poet, performer, essayist, and editor. She is an editor at Trembling Pillow Press and publishes the poetry magazine, Solid Quarter, which is dedicated to poets working in the tradition of the long poem. Her poetry has been most recently published in Drunken Boat, Trickhouse, New Laurel Review, YAWP Journal and the Big Bridge New Orleans Anthology. Her book Memorial + Sight Lines was published in 2008 by Lavender Ink. She has two chapbooks: Frida Kahlo: I am the poem (2004) and Framing a Song (2010) from Trembling Pillow Press. She coordinates the weekly 17 Poets! Featured Reader Calender. Megan has two forthcoming books of poetry entitled Sound & Basin (forthcoming from Portals Press, summer 2012) and Carville: Village of Forgotten Names. She has two chapbooks coming out in 2012 as well, "a city/ bottle boned" (dancing girl press) and irrational knowledge (fell swoop press).

WORLDS COLLIDE: A BR Literary COMMUNITY event to support Delta Mouth!

2012-01-20T15:11:00.000-08:00

Description

Three local READING SERIES and two local BANDS are joining forces to make the 4th Annual Delta Mouth Literary Festival a reality!

At 10pm!
HIGHLAND READING SERIES + RIVER WRITERS + THE UNDERPASS present the following readers!
-Adam Atkinson!
-Vincent Cellucci!
-Claire Dixon!
-Lara Glenum!
-Ben Pelhan!
-Chris Shipman!
-Julia Terese!

At 11pm!
***MELTERS! ***
www.myspace.com/melters
***DAVY CROCKETT & THE WILD FRONTIER!***
www.reverbnation.com/davycrockettthewildfrontier

$5 suggested donation, but whatever you can spare is appreciated! All donations benefit Delta Mouth, a multi-day celebration of readings and performances during St. Patrick's Day weekend. For more information, or to donate to our Kickstarter campaign, visit www.deltamouth.com!

www.deltamouth.com
http://225riverwriters.blogspot.com/
www.underpassreadings.com

massive apology to claire: camera (operator) failure.

river double down book release (1.19.12)

2012-01-11T11:40:00.000-08:00

"reading of the century" river
double down book release:

Christopher Shipman will read from his new book of poems, Human-Carrying Flight Technology, and Angus Woodward will read from his new comic novel, Americanisation: Lessons in American Culture and Language.

You can begin the New Year in flight when you soar above, under, and around America as a consequence of, as a result of, at the hands of, because of, by the dint of, by means of, by the agency of, through the medium of, by virtue of, for the life of, for the love of, for the death of, through the ghost of, with the help of American culture, language and life: Good poetry and fiction!

The reading will begin at 7pm at Chelsea’s Café (small bar), 2857 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge LA 70808. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the reading.

More info about Angus and his work can be found at http://anguswoodward.blogspot.com/

More info about Chris and his work can be found at www.christophershipmanwritingwork.com

We hope to see you all there!

river new year

2012-01-09T10:46:00.000-08:00

advent calender river never goes down quite as planned
but we'll be back river at b&t for jan 31st 2012!
stay updated for other river events--

yule river

2011-12-12T13:44:00.000-08:00

dashing thru the river
celebrating the last river of 2011--

adieupreview river

2011-11-28T19:26:00.000-08:00

cold descends the river banks
dramatic monologue preview from zack godshall
and river bids regular susan kirby-smith adieu

novemberiver

2011-11-13T11:55:00.000-08:00

river finally swayed to get gibbs (ryan) :

plus visual currents from riverover ben cockfield

and another first time river from chris prudhomme!

trick or treat

2011-11-01T09:17:00.001-07:00

river writers rests after bookfest and halloween
back nov 15

LA BOOKFEST, river PARTY AND literary PUB CRAWL (10.29)

2011-10-21T19:32:00.000-07:00

1st Annual Crawl to the Ball
October 29, 2011

LA BOOKFEST Saturday, October 29 · 9 am - 5pm
701 North 4th St.
Baton Rouge, LA

10:00am - 11:00am
capitol view room LA state capitol
Katrina Poetry Reading featuring:
Vincent Cellucci, Kelly Harris, Laura Mullen, Alison Pelegrin, and Brad Richard
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137823692985461

Literary Pub Crawl:

5pm Meet at the steps of the State Capitol building! Follow your guide to local food trucks and the first stop on the crawl.

5:15 Balcony Bar of Boudreaux and Thibodeaux (free)
Official, Unofficial After Party for LA Book Festival
Baton Rouge and Delta Journal throwdown reading
6pm Zack Godshall Lord Byron screening
7pm River Writers and LA Bookfest Guests throwdown reading
(bring several poems if you wish to participate)

8pm Red Star ($5 in drag, $7 in normative dress)

Underpass Reading

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117121628396191
9pm

Drag Ball at Red Star (benefiting New Delta Review)

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=233533153369223

riverober (10.18)

2011-10-17T12:51:00.000-07:00

firstriver from Aimee Davis
plus riverregular John David Harding
guide us thru to LA Book Fest(10.29) and rest of ween and riverober!

bring a devil mask if you wanna read some poetry afterwards

toriver

2011-10-03T12:13:00.000-07:00

toriver
fantastic local riveregulars from:

jesus avila
joey carbo
and first official river from:
emily nemens,
reading a bit from her book, scrub, which is very loosely based on the
Jewish New Year. (Mostly, it's about astronauts.)

smithriver

2011-09-19T21:30:00.000-07:00

two poet riversmiths

own the river

tomorrow evening

returning back to red stick:

tyler smith

accompanied by

dustin smith

laboriver

2011-09-02T10:05:00.000-07:00

post-tropical depression post-laboriver
featuring significant riverers:

taylor jacob pate
+
blake lee stephens

seniorivers: get in

2011-08-22T11:07:00.000-07:00

senioriver's got a shiny new lunch box:

kim vodicka
afton wilky

+ intro river
...if this is your first river bring a 2-3 min piece and introduce your river

fuck poems invitation for submissions

2011-08-19T15:55:00.000-07:00

fuck poems official facebook page

FUCK POEMS
: an exceptional anthology

eds: Vincent A. Cellucci
Bill Lavender

publisher: Lavender Ink 2012 (http://www.lavenderink.org/)

deadline for submissions: OCTOBER 1, 2011 **DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
dirty details: send up to six poems and brief bio in Word or .pdf format
to theexceptionalist@gmail.com

dear irrepressible poets,

fuck
it’s 2011 and who gives a fuck about poems?
the poetry scene has long loosened limbs
violated virgins beat their breasts
but after all where has poetry gotten us
that tearing off our garments hasn’t?

our whole poetic tradition is inseminated
from promiscuous sappho and catallus
(coming: poetry’s severities)
to River Writers annual celebration of the vernal equinox
an exceptional anthology is born!

extending an umbilical invitation
for national fuck poem progeny

grope voluptuous venus
adonis in bondage!

fuck
write
submit
repeat

stimulate the double entendre :
hatred of/or poesy ‘s self-hatred
we ain’t looking for anti-workshop wit
we wants to fuck: lewd and lascivious
historical translations of past fuckers
but as with fucking we are open to all
interpretations variants of your original penned positions
that pull our rags down to our ankles

if anyone gets to say fuck poems it’s us!

severely,
vincent a. cellucci

p.s., publication requires more than cringeworthy titillation and sexual description, but it also mandates them as well!

strip river

2011-08-08T08:59:00.000-07:00

fantastic river tomorrow:
baton rouge's talented chris lott rivers for first time
past river regular up from nola
jenn nunes strip[s] river
with her new e-chap release from PANK!!

river renders

2011-07-11T10:10:00.001-07:00

only remedy for july heat: RIVER
renders:

Maria Brocato, student leader for BRCC's emerging creative writing scene!

and

Zayne Turner, who returns to the river rouge from UVA!!!

[+ open river]

rivercentric

2011-06-27T14:47:00.001-07:00

river performances include video poems from river goddess: sarah jackson soon-to-be shipman
and interactive floetry from beep beep, bad feet, & the bass bohemoth
(please bring poems to sacrifice to the stage for their improvisational material)

Bath Tub Concerto

Meat Performance

"when i was smarter i didn't have to do this"

" current events are just a shield"

"yep"

full vid (part 1)

2nd digital riverside

2011-06-22T09:49:00.000-07:00

river writers proudly presents our second digital riverside:

"The Graves We Dig"
Eric Elliott

full chapbook available from Ampersand Books

first digital riverside: Ben Lowenkron's "Bone River Hymnal"

summeriverevertswell

2011-06-10T16:31:00.000-07:00

river lettin the levees be seen again!
welcoming back to la mr. kopel!

full rivers from:

james blanchard

charles garrett

ben kopel

river crests

2011-05-30T11:52:00.000-07:00

river's been busy this month
but thanks to morganza spillway
sacrifice of rural la residents
(sincere acknowledgement deserved: thank you)
and the opening of the bonnet carre
the river crested. br and nola rest easier--

but the river never rests even after it crests
summer surge begins with the convergence of:

The Liver Delivers, a one act play written especially for the river by regular
Susan Kirby-Smith

and

rivering in from Grand Coteau, LA
Patrice Melnick!

Patrice Melnick’s memoir, Turning Up the Volume (Xavier Press) was published in 2005 and she has a forthcoming collection of essays in Fall, 2011 (Catalyst Book Press.) Her essays and poems have appeared in a number of literary journals including Grain, The Xavier Review, Buffalo Bones and Prism International.

Patrice Melnick taught at Xavier University in New Orleans for 13 years where she founded one of the first creative writing programs at a Historically Black University. She teaches a Literary Nonfiction Workshop in the low-residency MFA program at the University of New Orleans.

Following Hurricane Katrina, Melnick opened up an international gift shop and started a literary reading and open mic series. In 2010 she established the nonprofit organization the Festival of Words Cultural Arts Collective Inc.

Melnick holds a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

and special lagniappe reading from: james blanchard

dig call for submissions

2011-05-09T14:09:00.000-07:00

Dear Poets,

Christopher Shipman here. I want to let you all know immediately that I have been asked to act as poetry editor for DIG Magazine of Baton Rouge. As the name implies, DIG is devoted to uncovering, or digging up all Baton Rouge has to offer. Poetry is something that Baton Rouge has to offer its citizens in plentiful delicious helpings. I want to extend a call for submissions (SEE BELOW) to all of you and any poets you may know in the Baton Rouge area who may be interested in seeing their work published in an eclectic quality magazine close to home.

The constantly growing poetry community of Baton Rouge is full of talent and inspiration. What better way to ensure this community reaches out to other important communities in the city than providing another exciting space for voices to be heard? DIG is a space for poets to do what poets do best- say a lot while saying very little. With that said, and considering the magazine's attention to the whole of Baton Rouge, DIG offers poets the challenge of submitting poems of only six to nine lines. Are you up to it? I look forward to finding out. DIG wants to publish a poem a week, so please see full guidelines below and start submitting!

GUIDELINES:
Please submit up to 5 poems (of six to 9 lines) in a single word attachment directly to me at cshipm1@lsu.edu

In the subject line of your email include "Your Name - DIG SUBMISSION"

Be sure that you include a cover letter that includes a brief note about yourself and your contact information.

I look forward to looking through your poems. Please forward this information to anyone interested!

Best wishes,
Christopher Shipman

river for the ages

2011-05-02T10:08:00.000-07:00

river for the ages tomorrow (5/3/11):

capt. rick blackwood reads from his novel

(two t's) eric elliott "the graves we dig" chap release

and first river from poet charles garrett

sprivering

2011-04-18T15:07:00.000-07:00

fantastic sprivering tomorrow evening:

phillip zimmerle leaves
and the lovely
miss lucie monk returns!

+ open river
bring a poem or two

river resistance : rich and dustin

2011-04-04T15:33:00.001-07:00

welcome rivervirgin dustin smith

+ old and new industrial pastorals
marginalized voices, rhyming quatrains,
slam and fantasy from soon to be dr.
rich cooper

houston post fest river--

2011-03-28T16:42:00.000-07:00

Houston Indie Book Festival and Interstate Poetry Showdown

Celebrate the fourth annual Houston Indie Book Festival along with Word Around Town and dozens of nationally-distributed literary journals, local booksellers, publishers, small presses, literary organizations, and authors at the Menil Park on Saturday, April 2nd from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Co-sponsored by NANO Fiction and Gulf Coast, the festival showcases the efforts of writers, artists, teachers, community members, and cultural groups working to make the arts and humanities a vibrant part of the Houston community.

After the Festival come experience the first ever Interstate Poetry Showdown brought to you by Word Around Town and the River Writers Group of Baton Rouge. The show will consist of 3 poets from Houston, TX and 3 from Baton Rouge, LA in a contest of poetic skill and endurance the likes of which have never been seen! Don’t miss the Interstate Poetry Showdown Saturday, April 2nd from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. at Avant Garden.

The featured poets are Benjamin Lowenkron, Eric Elliott, and Vincent Cellucci from Baton Rouge and Stephen Gros, Teresa Juarez, and Lupe Mendez from Houston. After the showcase will be an open mic so bring your poetry. Go to www.wordaroundtown.org for more info!

river flows to houston indie book fest

2011-03-28T16:38:00.000-07:00

HOUSTON INDIE BOOK FESTIVAL, APRIL 2, 2011
The Fourth Annual Houston Indie Book Fest Celebrates Small Presses, Magazines, and Independent Bookstores in Houston

[Houston, TX]—Celebrate the fourth annual Houston Indie Book Festival along with dozens of
nationally-distributed literary journals, local booksellers, publishers, small presses, literary
organizations, and writers at the Menil Park on Saturday, April 2nd from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Co-sponsored by NANO Fiction and Gulf Coast, the festival showcases the efforts of writers, artists, teachers, community members, and cultural groups working to make the arts and humanities a vibrant part of the Houston community.

The festival will offer readings by local authors throughout the day, including: children’s book
author Gwendolyn Zepeda; fiction writers Sophie Rosenblum, Ann Weisgarber, Amelia Gray, and
Ryan Call; as well as poet Hayan Charara. The Houston Indie Book Fest and Inprint Readings will
take place every hour from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.

This year’s festival is set to correspond with the Menil Collection’s Open House event. Alongside
the book fair, visitors can enjoy outdoor art exhibits, tours of the Menil campus, art demonstrations,
live music, food trucks, and much more!

Kirby Johnson, editor of NANO Fiction and co-organizer of the festival, says, “The Houston Indie
Book festival celebrates the creative and cultural value of writing in Houston. It’s refreshing to see
the smaller, independent organizations who are working hard to sustain their vital place in our
community. The festival is a great chance to show your appreciation and support for these
bookstores, publishers, organizations, and writers.”

This event is free, and everyone in the community is invited to participate in what has become
Houston’s largest and only event of its kind. Attached is a poster listing some of the vendors that
will be present, along with a sheet that details the mission and history of the festival.
Since 2008, the Houston Indie Book Festival has steadily expanded from a small gathering of local
bookstores and artists to a full-scale regional event. To date, more than fifty exhibitors from all over
Texas and the U.S. are scheduled to participate.

More information about the Houston Indie Book Festival is available online at
www.indiebookfest.org.

The Houston Indie Book Festival is supported by the Houston Arts Alliance, The Houston
Endowment, Inc., Inprint, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Texas Commission on the
Arts, and the University of Houston’s Department of English.

fuck poems: rw vernal equinox annual event

2011-03-17T09:46:00.001-07:00

big weekend but everyone's got time to write a fp!
in fact live 2 write 2 and bring 'em out on tues--

open river for our annual vernal event
FUCK POEMS
(interpret at will but 2 predominant interpretations:
poems about fucking, or poems about fucking hating poems)

noir river

2011-02-21T08:53:00.000-08:00

river noir presents three fresh water riverers
all local talents:

steven babcock reading from his "poem noir"

ed tyler, a local prof from brcc reads and is rumored to play guitar

phillip zimmerle, percussive fiction first

ALSO

Kim Vodicka at the Goldmine Saloon (nola)
2.24.11 8pm

river highland combo presents pelegrin

2011-02-15T15:02:00.001-08:00

Highland Coffees, Thursday, February 17 • 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Alison Pelegrin
Alison is the author of "Big Muddy River of Stars," winner of the Akron Poetry Prize; as well as "The Zydeco Tablets"; and three prize-winning chapbooks, most recently Voodoo Lips and Squeezers. Individual poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily and The Writer's Almanac. She ...earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas, and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Her profile on the NEA website is here:http://www.nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_23

Vincent Cellucci
Vince is the author of "An Easy Place/To Die," newly out from CityLit. His poetry and reviews have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, the New Orleans Review, and moira. He received his MFA in Poetry from LSU and runs River Writers, another Baton Rouge reading series.

Lindsey Hopton
Lindsey has published poems in Cresent City Review and has work forthcoming in Delta Journal. She is a creative writing student at LSU and an employee of Highland Coffees.

Michael Glaviano
Michael is the author of the split letterpress chapbook "Careful/The People Collider" from Violet Hour Press with Tommy Jacobi. He is an undergraduate at LSU, and His poems have appeared in Whiskey Island and Strange Machine. He has a tumblr: http://glvno.tumblr.com/

PLUS AN OPEN MIC GUERRILLA READING AT THE GREEK AMPHITHEATRE. BRING SOMETHING TO READ!

If you are interested in reading at the Highland Coffees Reading Series, send a small selection of your work to highlandreading@gmail.com.

***
Alison Pelegrin is the author of Big Muddy River of Stars, winner of the Akron Poetry Prize; as well as The Zydeco Tablets; and three prize-winning chapbooks, most recently Voodoo Lips and Squeezers. Individual poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily and The Writer's Almanac. She earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas, and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Presently teaching English at Southeastern Louisiana University, she lives in Mandeville, Louisiana with her husband, Bryan Davidson, and their two young sons, Ben and Sam.

interminable river

2011-02-06T18:43:00.000-08:00

2 superlative river returnees:

carrie causey

anna hurst

and in the stick from new orleans reading from his new and old typewriter vomit:

jason vowell (rescheduled)

river 20-eleven

2011-01-23T18:36:00.000-08:00

starting the new river run
with first time readings from
the following local talents:

jesus avila
maia elgin
corley miller

river mates: Vowell & Whitesides will be premiering their new short film “SCANNED.”

2010-12-16T08:11:00.000-08:00

Please join us in NOLA.

PRESS RELEASE:

Join local directors Jason Vowell & Wylie Whitesides for night of independent short films Friday December 17th, 2010 at the Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Vowell & Whitesides will be premiering their new short film “SCANNED.”(trailer here)

Synopsis:

David Jensen (Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons, The Mist) and Clay Chamberlin (I Love You Phillip Morris) star in this airport security sci-fi drama from New Orleans directors Jason Vowell and Wylie Whitesides.

Computer Engineer Peter Norton (Chamberlin) is on a routine business trip to Cleveland when he is randomly selected by the TSA for a terrorist screening. Things soon begin to spiral out of control as he is interrogated by an inspector (Jensen) intent on proving he is a threat to homeland security,

This timely short film deals with the issues faced by all of us in todays world. How far will the government go to protect us from the threat of terrorism?

*Also screening:

“WHITE OTHER.” Starring Tom Felton (Harry Potter) and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake). Directed by Dan Hartley.

“The Price of Flowers” Directed by local filmmaker Ashley Charbonnet. Starring Lance Nichols and Justin Scalise.

“THE SHED” Directed by Jason Vowell. Starring Chris Welcker and Jason Vowell.

“Cell Phone Psycho” Directed by David S. White. Starring Billy Slaughter and the Noisician Coalition. Winner of the 2010 New Orleans Film Festival. Official Selection of the 2010 Big Easy International Film Festival.

A special sneak peak at the New Orleans Documentary “Murder Through the Eyes of a Child.” Directed by John Richie.

New locally shot and produced music videos from Ben Labat and the Happy Devil, Lovey Dovies, and The Generationals.

Many of the directors and actors will be in attendance.

*These films will be followed by a TSA themed Burlesque act by members of the FLUER DE TEASE burlesque troop.

founderivers

2010-11-29T18:57:00.000-08:00

we cordially invite you to join the group that river'd it all:

Vincent A. Cellucci

Eric Elliott

Ben Lowenkron

Christopher Shipman

novemberiver

2010-11-07T16:57:00.000-08:00

outta oct.--enormous novemberivers

returning, the river requested :

alison barker

and 2 first rivers from local writers:

joey carbo

and

kim vodicka

all souls reading

2010-10-25T19:43:00.000-07:00

cull your favorite dead poets
open mic dead party
bring your bones

highland river combo thursday (10.21)

2010-10-18T09:28:00.000-07:00

Oct. 21 7pm at Highland Coffees (3350 Highland Road)
Highland Reading Series and River Writers Combo Reading
readings by:

Cara Blue Adams (Managing Editor of The Southern Review)
Mel Coyle (LSU MFA)
Ava Haymon (local poet published by LSU Press)

(volume on videos low; turn way up)

augustus river

2010-10-09T16:11:00.000-07:00

insisting the river exudes youth and vital in the midst of violence

highland reading series guest
readers and freestylists:

ben cockfield

robert frank

layth sihan

Red Stick Writers Tell 100 Stories

2010-10-08T13:56:00.000-07:00

A few dozen Red Stick Writers read sudden fiction, narrative poems, brief memoirs, excerpts...and it all adds up to exactly 100 stories. Generously hosted by the Southern Review.

Friday, October 8 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Old President's House, LSU (at Highland and Raphael Semmes)

river is yours

2010-09-27T12:52:00.000-07:00

9.28.10

benjamin haas
(finally a full river performance)

sam oliver
(a reading from baton rouge's most omnipresent literature supporter and aficionado)

angus woodward
(br writer whose collection is titled "down at the end of the river")

2010-09-20T16:12:00.000-07:00

Two nights of Creole Arabesque & Transylvanian-Moldavian Fascination
Wednesday, September 22, 8:00 p.m.
GOLD MINE SALOON, NOLA

featuring guest writers & poets Ruxandra Cesereanu, Lucian Dan Teodorovici, Bogdan Odagescu, Marius Conkan, Bill Lavender, R. Moose Jackson, James Nolan and DeWitt Brinson

EVENT PROLOGUE: Sheherezade, the medieval storyteller, told stories for 1001 nights in order to save her life from the cruel sultan Sharyar, who married a virgin every night and had her killed next morning. Only Sheherezade’s stories could stop him from his murderous insanity. The 1001 Nights Storytelling Festival and its participants are out to prove that the 21st century is the new Oral Century. They believe that New Orleans and Transylvania are the places where Sheherezade 2 is going to offer a new model for survival through storytelling. The events will center entirely on the human voice and imagination.

The Transylvanians will unveil sequels to the 1001 Nights in English translation, some of them interpreted by New Orleans actors, surprise musicians and dancers, while the New Orleanians will unveil accounts of unmerciful fabulosity.

Also featured in this festival — A meeting of Two-Continent Imaginations: Corin Braga, founder of The Center For Imagination Studies from Cluj, Transylvania, and Confessor Emeritus of Abomination and founder of The New Orleans School for the Imagination Dave Brinks joined by collaborateurs Andrei Codrescu and Bill Lavender.

text taken from: http://nola.humidbeings.com/events/detail/3881/1001-NIGHTS-NEW-ORLEANS-STORYTELLING-FESTIVAL-2010-09-22

embarking on 3 yearivers

2010-09-08T10:01:00.000-07:00

the river returns for another annual series in br
with two new riverers and one from the beginning
diving first on 9.14.10:

My Nguyen
Chris Tusa
Afton Wilky

lagniappe and preview readings from benjamin hass & ben cockfield:

houston readings this thursday

2010-08-17T08:54:00.001-07:00

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=150717398271859&index=1

some old river press & new river news

2010-08-13T13:07:00.000-07:00

forgot to post this spring

http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/90155092.html

followed the river south for summer and back for fall--

stay tuned for up coming events; the river returns

ever river

2010-06-21T15:00:00.000-07:00

special river tomorrow night
(briefly breaking for eddies of summer)

river immortalizes two of it's most inspired river dwellers
(as they follow the current may they be ever river):

Debangana Banerjee

Jordan Soyka

stop poisoning us

2010-06-15T08:29:00.000-07:00

thoughtcrime readings (houston)

2010-06-14T07:51:00.000-07:00

New Monthly Spoken Word Showcase In Midtown/Montrose
Houston, TX 06/17/2010

June 17th Performances by

Micheal Hoerman, a visiting scholar from southwest Missouri
John Gray, poignant poet, hilarious comedian
Ken Jones, creative writing teacher at AIH
Salvador Macias, an alarmingly talented poet in the shade of Denis Johnson
Noel Johnson, host at the Taft Street Coffee open mic

What:
ThoughtCrime, a monthly poetry showcase and Q&A session with Houston’s top poets

Where:
Khon’s Bar
A relaxed, hip, Midtown/Montrose wine bar.
http://khonsbar.com/
2808 Milam Street
Houston, TX 77006
(713) 523-7775

When:
Thursday, June 17th, 2010 9pm – 11pm
Performances will start promptly at 9pm.
ThoughtCrime will proceed monthly on the third Thursday of every month.

Why:
The majority of poetry shows in Houston are either open mic oriented or are focused around an occasion or event. Houston needs a monthly performance where the best poets of our city are showcased in a manner that allows them to gain greater national exposure.

How:
15 minute featured spoken word performances with host-lead question and answer sessions after each performance. Audience participation will be encouraged throughout. Some performances will be recorded and posted on the web. Also photo coverage is encouraged.

For additional information including performer bios or promotional materials, Contact:
Stephen Gros
832.894.1558
gaugedanger@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/stephen.gros

riv-meni-rs

2010-06-07T13:07:00.000-07:00

river endures sweat
vigilant of hippopotamus

verbums from:

boz bowles

amanda mertz, flash

ryan monica

dramariver + mel & jenn

2010-05-10T09:10:00.000-07:00

this river:

barbie survives
a nine minute play by susan kirby-smith

+ poems from

mel & jenn
coyle & nunes

realvafest

2010-04-26T12:33:00.000-07:00

in between international fest
and jazz fest
river's river:

Vincent A. Cellucci
Eric Elliott
Ben Lowenkron
Christopher Shipman

+ Hiram (special idaho/danish guest)

literary la,

2010-04-20T20:14:00.000-07:00

beaucoup readings and drama (the good kind) coming up in accord with all art (mfa exhibitions), music (festival international and jazz fest), spring and semester-end activities:

4.18-4.25
all city 2010 slam
grand slam finals 4.25 @ 4-9
1415 main street, br

4.21 @ 7:30, 4.25 @ 2:30
the double life of dr. dapertutto
adapted and directed by ruth laurion bowman
lsu blackbox -- 137 coates hall

4.22 @ 8
rodger kamenetz retires reading
mel coyle
jenn nunes
christopher shipman
+ music from polly pry
goldmine saloon-nola

4.23 @ 6:30
david kirby
lsu
ol' president's house

4.24 @ 11
alison barker
james claffey
susan kirby-smith
david newman
jordan soyka
rachel van sickle

4.24 @ 12
mfa alumni reading
for lsu day
jamey hatley
chris shipman
emilie staat
ronlyn domingue
vincent cellucci
claire dixon
kristin sanders
ben lowenkron
102 allen hall

4.27 @ 10
river writers
founders' river
vincent a. cellucci
eric elliott
ben lowenkrown
christopher shipman
boudreaux & thibodeaux

river decadents

2010-04-11T19:16:00.000-07:00

rivers overflowing after awp:

returnee Taylor Gorman
and genial Lucie Monk

plus river presents
the american decadents
and anti-decadents

Jordan Soyka
and DeWitt Brinson

fuck poems

2010-03-29T17:11:00.001-07:00

annual vernal river:

FUCK POEMS

open to all interpretations
celebrate spring
with a fuck poem or 2

fuck corpse

I learned an important analogy for my own sexual escapades:
love bugs stick together
whew they fuck, kill
them & they die together
in coitus
word, word. balls up
from behind from the front feed me your seed
we take from what we cannot need
tao of bite the bullet, roll the dice, bite the lip, fuck it…let it void
whoever wrote number two fucked up my poem
it was me. ididit. I fucked your poem. fucked it real good.
the police, the government, the prostitute, the child, the man the woman, yeah fuck you
a poem a stink a grating gorge a quality
in the kitchen?
on the island by the blender
fuck you and your emotions because you failed at fucking me the way I deserve to be fucked
forever fucked your distance spread that along
bones of the dinosaur that had sat mostly buried in my lover’s backyard
sprouting yellow flowers you pick to give
is there anything
other than fuck?

liffey river

2010-03-15T09:43:00.000-07:00

hadn't had enough
after saturday

please join us for:

andrew b. plague passed provokes

james claffey and maureen foley
together for liffey

"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art;
it is the part the schools cannot recognize." Joyce