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New Orleans Poetry Festival — Thursday, April 16, 2026
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Room / Venue7:00-10:00 pm
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Saturn BarOpening Night: Last Splice
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New Orleans Poetry Festival — Friday, April 17, 2026
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Room / Venue9AM10:00-10:50am11:00-11:50am1:00-2:00 pm2:30-3:30 pm4:00-5:00 pmFREE7:00-8:30 pm
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Great HallSetupSmall Press FairSmall Press Fair Happy HourInternational Night Mexican Poetry & Translation
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Kolaj InstituteWorkshopsThe Book as Body: Constructing Memory Archives for a Post Apocalyptic FutureANIMATE YOUR POEMHybrid Possibilities: Writing Across Disciplines and SensesPOEMAS ANTES DE NACER: El suspiro del lenguaje / The First Breath of Language
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204The Minoritarian Mode: On Fidelity, Experimentation, and Deterritorialization in TranslationCantar/es: Mesoamerican Aesthetics and PoeticsA Spatial Craft: Poetry and the World We Live InTranslating in a Burning World: A Conversation about the Best Literary Translations series
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250SupercalEKPHRASTICaladocious: Enlarging Creative PracticePurity Culture and the Southern GothicEcstasy in Lyric: Contemporary Poetry Of and Beyond SelfQueer/Trans Ecopoetics: Rootedness, Resistance, and Regeneration
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300ASafekeeping and Keepsakes: The Poetics of Confessional Serial WritingTransgressive Ecologies: Writing Political Urgency through Radical PoeticsThere's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money: Five Poets Respond to CapitalismTracing Tiepolo’s Hound: Poets Working in the Visual Arts
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Café IstanbulArchive PoeticsBreaking Lines: Poetry Workshops in Carceral SpacesROUNDTABLE: VISION AS RELATIONALITYThe World in Red and Black: A reading and conversation with Four Oaxaca Poets
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St. RochShitholes of the World, Unite: A Reading of Poetry in Translation
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Allways (front)Common Place Poetics ReadingA Working Girls Press Reading
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Allways (The Twilight Room)Exophonic Poetry ReadingNew Approaches in Memory and Desire: A Ruth Stone House Reading
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Kajun'sLagniappe Reading 1Lagniappe Reading 2
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SiberiaOpen Mic
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New Orleans Poetry Festival — Saturday, April 18, 2026
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Room / Venue9AM10:00-10:50am11:00-11:50am Louisiana Spotlight1:00-2:00 pm2:30-3:30 pm4:00-5:00 pmFREE7:30-8:008:00-9:30 pm
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Great HallSetupSmall Press FairSecond Line: Jazz Funeral for the Death of DemocracySaturday Night Features: JJJJJerome Ellis & Courtney Bush
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Kolaj InstituteWorkshopsEkphragrance: Generative Poetry + Perfume WorkshopNested Languages: Louisiana Spanish Language (LSL)We Did it Ourselves: Sustainability & Integrity in DIY PublishingApprenticeships in the Trace: A Hands-On Intro to Literary TranslationWhere We Come Together: A Generative Ekphrastic Writing Workshop that Welcomes Both Your Joys and Your Sorrows
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204Humor/Horror: after Douglas KearneyPoets of Louisiana State UniversityPoetics of Disruption: Insomnia, Noise, & Interlocutory LayeringVoices in Disguise: Persona, Performance, Prophecy & the Dispersed Poetic Self“One Need Not Be a Chamber to Be Haunted”: Grotesque Forms, Gothic Nightmares, & Grimy Affect in Horror Poetry
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300AIrreverent Voices: Latin America’s Neo-Avant-Garde PoetsBRACKISH POETICS: Blended, Hybrid, Louisiana Narrative in Contemporary PoetryDespachos de "una nación artificial": Contemporary Poetics of Mexico and the Mexican DiasporaWeaving Against Linearity: Archives, Repertoires, and Practices of ResistanceThe Poetics of Curation
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400Concurrent Languages: Multilingual Poetry in Practice (Roundtable)“A certain me is desirable”: Bob Kaufman Turns 101Lit Craft Is WitchcraftExperiments in Translation. A ConversationTripwire: Transnational Poetics
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Café IstanbulExperiments in Translation: Solidarities through Time and SpaceBeautiful and Ugly Too: A Reading with Chuck PerkinsCollective Task PerformanceBlack Ocean 20th Anniversary CelebrationTwitchCon
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St. RochDream Desires: Mirror / BlueprintFIELD TRIP DetroitLavender Ink / Diálogos Reading
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Allways (front)FAYUCAS, ANÁBASIS Y VIENTOPoetas de la
Librería Escandalar (Mexico City)
The Future is now: a celebration of Afrofuturism and Black poetics
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Allways (The Twilight Room)Less Likely As We Go: an Unlikely Stories readingTopos Days, Ursus MundoSpiral Editions Traveling Family Band & People's Orchestra
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SiberiaExophony or English as a Literary Languageco•im•press Poets and Translators ReadingMargin(al) Mimesis: Extension, Rupture, Adjacency
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Kajun'sLagniappe Reading 3Lagniappe Reading 4Lagniappe Reading 5
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New Orleans Poetry Festival — Sunday, April 19, 2026
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Room / Venue9AM10:00-10:50am11:00-11:50am1:00-2:00 pm2:30-3:30 pm5:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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Great HallSetupSmall Press FairClosing Pool Party
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Kolaj InstituteWorkshopsKolaj Institute WorkshopThe Bilingual Brain Poetry WorkshopStrange Magic: Writing Surreal Poems
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204New Waves and Unfamiliar Sensations: A Korean-English Bilingual ReadingA World You’ve Never Seen: All About Korean Poetry Culture (Roundtable)“We walked through night until there was a poem”: Walking as Writing PracticeModes of Circulation: Translation Projects and the Changing Position of Imperial Centers
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300AWhat Kind of Poetry World Should We Have? (An Annulet and RCAH Center for Poetry Roundtable)"It's Copperhead Season(s):" Collaborative Composition, Shared Snake Stories, Poetics of PerformanceMongrel Coalition Against Gringpo: 10 Years LaterForm and (Dis)Content, Vol 7: Genre Up, Genre Down
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400The Shadow Dissertation: The Poetry that Happened While We Were Being ScholarsContemporary Poetry in Translation: Poets and their TranslatorsArchive Fantasma: Stories to Be Had EverywhereRoundtable: Divinatory Poetics: Queer Counter-Prophecy and Radical Futurities
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St. RochContemporary Latin American Environmental PoetryBOA Editions 50th anniversary reading
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Allways (front)Poetry Against EmpireUDP - Second Factory Celebration
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Allways (The Twilight Room)Fence Books 25th Anniversary ReadingEngaging Resistance through Feminist Archives
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SiberiaIf You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now: An APARTMENT Poetry Readinga mercury firs reading ~ ~ > >
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Kajun'sLagniappe Reading 6Lagniappe Reading 7
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