The 43rd Annual Deep South Festival of Writers, 2003-2004
17 September 2003 7-9 pm, Dean’s Gallery.
Reading by poet Skip Fox, author of Wallet and Kabul
Under Siege from Bloody Twin Press, as well as Of What published by
Potes and Poets press (2003).
Bilingual reading in French and English by Jean Arceneaux and Andre
Muise.
A morning of readings by the winners of the Acadiana Writing
Project’s 2003 “Writes of Spring” contest for young writers.
An evening of collaborative performances between writers and
musicians, and writers and artists.
Readings by contributors to Another South: Experimental
Writing in the South, part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series
published by the University of Alabama. Readers will include Alex Rawls, Joel
Dailey, and Bill Lavender, among others.
Reading by Subrata Dasgupta from his new novel, a coming of age
tale set in Britain and India.
Fiction writer Josh Russell from Tulane University and author of
Yellow Jack, a Borders New Voices selection, a BookSense 76 Pick, and a
finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.
“Ethnopoetics At The Millennium”, a lecture by internationally
renowned poet, translator, and anthologist Jerome Rothenberg.
Reading by Jerome
Rothenberg, author of over sixty books of poetry including Poems for the Game of Silence, Poland/1931,
A Seneca Journal, Vienna Blood, That Dada Strain, New Selected Poems 1970-1985,
Khurbn, and most recently The Lorca
Varations, Seedings, and A Paradise
of Poets (all from New Directions).
The “Poetry Crawl,”
an evening of readings by local writers hosted at a series downtown Lafayette
venues, the readings traveling from location to location as the evening
progresses.
Reading by innovative poet and
translator Camille Martin of New Orleans. Her collections of poetry include sesame
kiosk (Potes & Poets Press, 2002), rogue embryo (Lavender Ink,
1999), magnus loop (Chax Press, 1999), and Plastic Heaven (Fell
Swoop, 1996). Martin founded and co-curates the Lit City Poetry Reading Series
in New Orleans.
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