Pelican Bomb has a review of Maude Schuyler Clay’s exhibit Mississippi History currently up at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. If you’re able to make it in, or find the book of the same name, do.

Pelican Bomb has a short essay on the Gentilly Resilience District, a new urban planning scheme in New Orleans. With all the rain we’ve been getting lately, construction cannot start too soon…

This coming weekend, November 12, is the Studio in the Woods’ annual fundraiser, FORESTival, and I’m thrilled to be joining poets Cassie Pruyn, Gina Ferrara, and Stacey Balkun for a series of pop-up poetry readings over the course of the day. Each poet will read before and between musical acts, including local favorites Sweet Crude and Johnny Angel, presenting works on landscape and place. Running from 11am to 5pm, the festival is free with a small donation suggested. More information is available on the ASITW website, or in an interview on “Inside the Arts” on WWNO radio. And for those who have never visited, the bottomland hardwood forest of the lower coast is the perfect place to spend an autumn day.

For those traipsing about the Crescent City on Halloween night, Pelican Bomb has an investigation of one of its most famous murderers, the jazz-loving Axman of 1918. He was never caught, so do be careful out there…

I’m humbled to hear that Hattiesburg, Mississippi has made the Gannett/University Press of Mississippi top-10 list for Mississippi Reads this week. To think so many folks are interested in local history (or simply love the Hub City, which is so easy to do) is a true thrill, and coming up on the two-year anniversary of its publication I’m still grateful to all those who made the book possible. Copies remain available from Arcadia, from Amazon, and elsewhere.