Talks – Sabotage

Festival Panel Discussion Talks

“The night’s young, you’re not”: New Orleans Poetry Festival Day 2

April 23, 2017April 24, 2017 Editor Bill Lavender, Christopher Carmona, Dan Bellem, Ginger Ko, Isaac Chevarria, Jephrey Cyphers Wright, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Jessica Smith, Luis Bravo, Mark Statman, Maureen Thorson, Michelle Detorit, New Orleans, New Orleans Poetry Festival, Vanesa Cristina Pacheco

-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– Today’s summary is going to be a little more perfunctory than yesterday’s, as I spent more

Festival Panel Discussion Talks

“I write about chairs, put me in the chair section”: New Orleans Poetry Festival Day 1

April 21, 2017April 22, 2017 Editor Addie E. Citchens, Adrian Van Young, Istanbul Cafe, Jenn Marie Nunes, Kwoya Fagin Maples, Lauren Hunter, Moira Crone, New, New Orleans Healing Centre, New Orleans Poetry Festival, Rushelle Frazier, Terence Crutcher, Tim Jones Yelvington, William Carlose Williams, Yuri Herrera

-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– There are some advantages to attending a poetry festival in a foreign country: no or little

Podcast Poetry Talks

The Lunar Ticks Boxes: A Review Of The Lunar Poetry Podcast

February 13, 2017February 12, 2017 Editor Bath, Bristol, David Turner, Lunar Poetry Podcast, Matt Miles, National Poetry Day

-Reviewed by Matt Miles– The Arts is a scene filled with unique, sometimes eccentric minds and interesting souls, yet even

Panel Discussion Talks

Liberation in Literature @ Bare Lit Fest 27/02/2016

March 19, 2016 Editor Balihar Khalsa, Bare Lit Festival, Joan Anim-Addo, Leila Aboulela, Radhika Swarup, Robin Yassin Kassab, Sareeta Domingo

-Reviewed by Balihar Khalsa– I work in TV and am trying to establish myself as a documentary maker, but

The Place of Poetry in the World – Simon Armitage’s Inaugural Lecture

November 26, 2015 Editor Alt Lit, Claudia Rankine, Geoffrey Hill, Kate Tempest, Kenneth Goldsmith, Oxford Professor of Poetry, Simon Armitage

-Reviewed by Dan Holloway– The Oxford Professor of Poetry seems about as outmoded and irrelevant a title as you could