I will be reading at the Worthen House in Lowell on Thursday, 7 March 2013.
This show, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” aims to bring the French Quarter to Lowell, and connect them with poetry. This will be a showcase of Merrimack Valley and Mississippi Delta poets, and I’m excited to be part of an event that features local musicians and performing artists. Please come down and join me for the launch of an exciting new collaboration between Lowell and New Orleans, one that is soon sure to make a ride on Desire from Lowell to New Orleans possible for local writers and artists.
Now here’s the problem, I’m not sure what poems I should read. I’ve got 5-6 minutes to fill and 10,000 poems to fill it with. Anyone read any of my work and have a suggestion?
This AWP offsite event is free. 21+
Featuring many local poets and acts + Delta poets: Cellucci, Guthrie, Shipman
Vincent A. Cellucci is the College of Art + Design’s Communication across the Curriculum Studio Coordinator at Louisiana State University; he specializes in digital documentation, portfolio development, and teaching and writing in the art and design disciplines. Vincent received his MFA from Louisiana State University and went to Loyola University New Orleans. Last year he collaborated with the Louisiana Division of the Arts to develop and host several Artist Communication Workshops. He has a background in creative writing and the studio arts and he has been published in Exquisite Corpse, moria, New Delta Review, The Pedestal, and Presa. An Easy Place / To Die is his first book of poetry; he also contributed, edited and produced a collaborative (including Andrei Codrescu) audio novel, The Katrina Decameron, which was released on iTunes in late 2010; and he is the founder of River Writers, a downtown Baton Rouge reading series.
A native of Athens, Ohio, and graduate of Ohio University and Louisiana State University, Brock Guthrie has taught at the University of Alabama for five years. He’s a poet whose work has appeared in such places as Cimarron Review, Iron Horse, Los Angeles Review, New Ohio Review, Southern Review, and elsewhere. His first book, Contemplative Man, is forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press.
Chris Shipman’s poems have been included in journals such as Cimarron Review, Exquisite Corpse, La Fovea, Pedestal, and Salt Hill, among others. His is the author of Human-Carrying Flight Technology (Blaze VOX Books) and co-author with DeWitt Brinson of Super Poems (Kattywompus Press). Shipman has been featured on Verse Daily and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is poetry editor for DIG Magazine of Baton Rouge and teaches Creative Writing and English Lit at St. Martin’s Episcopal High School in Metairie.