BEACONS launch in London

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From dear friends Gregory Norminton and Nick Hayes, and the fine folks at Oneworld Publishing — the launch of a book years in the making, from which Gregory read in manuscript form last year at the Wilderness Festival, and which at last arrives in our hot little hands:

You are invited to celebrate the London launch of BEACONS - stories for our not so distant future. With Rodge Glass, Nick Hayes, Holly Howitt, James Miller & Gregory Norminton. Waterstones Piccadilly,6.30 pm, Tuesday, May 21 2013. Free. Wine. Free wine.

Oh, to be in two places at once. Did they mention the free wine?

FORESTival at A Studio in the Woods

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For those in the New Orleans area, A Studio in the Woods is hosting its annual FORESTival this coming Saturday, from 11am-5pm. Always a spectacular day down in the forest, the festival features food, music, art, and photography from some of New Orleans’ finest, and if the rumors are true, a giant puppet second-line courtesy of the Black Forest Fancies Laboratory.

Don’t miss it — no matter how big or little a kid you are.

Dead Poets Night at NOPL Norman Mayer

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As one of the last events of National Poetry Month, I’m honored to be leading a celebration of poetry tonight at the Norman Mayer (Gentilly) Branch of the New Orleans Public Library. The Dead Poets Slam starts at 5.30pm, featuring area high school students bringing their favorite dead poets — well, at least their poems — into the poetry nook on the second floor. Don’t be a stranger! Come celebrate the end of a fantastic month with us.

Also concluding the month is the series of NPM-related posts at Bayou Magazine, over at UNO. Their contributions this month are well worth trolling back through — it ain’t every day that Aaron Neville writes a new poem just for the occasion, is it?