I’m thrilled to moderate a discussion next week between the superb Michael Allen Zell and Danny Cherry, Jr., on their new novels at the 2024 Words & Music Festival. Called “New Orleans Crime and Suspense,” the panel will take place on Thursday, November 21, at 2pm at the André Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice. The event is free but reserve a ticket here.

I could not be more grateful to reveal the cover for The Singing River, forthcoming from Belle Point Press next year. With poems spanning nearly twenty years within its pages, and featuring a sketch by Walter Anderson on its cover, this book is no less than a dream come true.

Prior to its acceptance by Belle Point, the collection was, among other placements, a 2019 finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition in poetry, a 2020 finalist for the Raz-Shumaker Prize for Poetry from Prairie Schooner, and a finalist for the 2023 Washington Prize from the Word Works.

The Singing River will be published on February 25, 2025, with a full book tour to follow in the spring. Pre-orders are available here.

The lmnl fall fest is this weekend! I’ll be reading alongside basically everyone else in New Orleans, with a short set starting around 2.20pm. Best party all autumn long!

I’m looking forward to joining the other poets from the New Orleans Poetry Journal Press at the Louisiana Book Festival in three weeks, to celebrate the new Poetry Buffet Anthology. The reading starts at 9am; with so many poets reading that day, it’s sure to be a packed event, so come and grab a seat early!

I’m delighted to say that a chapter from my memoir-in-progress, “On Pandemic Gastronomy,” has been named a finalist in the 2024 Patty Friedman Writing Contest in Creative Nonfiction. Thanks to lmnl arts and to Leah Myers!