I’m delighted to be appearing at two events at this year’s Words and Music Festival next weekend: at a reading celebrating the launch of the lmnl anthology on Thursday night, and at the reading celebrating the Katrina and Rita anthology on Saturday night. More details are available at the festival website — it’s one of the city’s best. Free and open to the public!

I’m honored to be joining Dennis Formento, Olivia Clare Friedman, Skye Jackson, Chuck Perkins, and Gina Ferrara at this year’s Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge next weekend, on November 1. One of the best literary festivals in the South, the LBF only increases its poetry offerings year on end, and this year is an absolute feast. Free!

I’m delighted to be reading with Madeleine Trosclair-Rotolo, author of the excellent collection Bottomlands, at Cavalier House Books (formerly Beausoleil Books) in Lafayette next Thursday, on October 23. We’ll be starting around 6 — free and open to all.

I’m very grateful to have poems in this beautiful anthology of poetry and art inspired by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, edited by Mona Lisa Saloy and John Warner Smith. Events will be taking place throughout the fall, in New Orleans and beyond.

Later this month on September 18 I’m delighted to join Lauren Rhoades for the New Orleans launch of her new memoir, Split the Baby. We’ll be in conversation at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, with a public conversation, Q&A, and book signing to follow. All welcome; the event starts at 6pm at the MSJE. Attendance is free but registration is requested.