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LSU's Premiere Reading Series Returns
for its 20th Season!
As the home of Louisiana's flagship university and the capital of a state teeming with cultural diversity and a rich artistic heritage, we feel Baton Rouge holds great potential to serve as this state’s creative nucleus -- a place where artists from all over the world can come to share their work through conversation with an engaged and diverse audience. As the premiere contemporary literary reading series at LSU, Readers & Writers has been instrumental in helping Baton Rouge realize this potential.
Since its formation by the LSU English Department in 1993, Readers & Writers has featured hundreds of internationally renowned and award-winning novelists, poets, playwrights, and performers and created events that have provided thoughtful, moving, funny, and always rewarding interactions with citizens and students from all walks of life. This year is no different! We are delighted to unveil our 2012/2013 line-up:
Since its formation by the LSU English Department in 1993, Readers & Writers has featured hundreds of internationally renowned and award-winning novelists, poets, playwrights, and performers and created events that have provided thoughtful, moving, funny, and always rewarding interactions with citizens and students from all walks of life. This year is no different! We are delighted to unveil our 2012/2013 line-up:
Revised Date! Tuesday, April 16:
SOUTH TO THE FUTURE
7:00 at the Baton Rouge Gallery
We close the year with a glimpse into the future with Jack Butler (Jujitsu for Christ, Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock) and Randall Kenan (A Visitation of Spirits, The Fire This Time), two authors whose innovative work blurs the lines between southern literature, science fiction, and magical fantasy.
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Past Events:
Thursday, February 28:
POETRY & REGIMES OF POWER
7:00 at the Baton Rouge Gallery
Two nationally-renowned poets explore the intersection of the private self and global capitalist empire: the award-winning Dawn Lundy Martin (Discipline, A Gathering of Matter / a Matter of Gathering) and spoken word poet and slam champion Chancelier "Xero" Skidmore!
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PAST EVENTS:
Thursday, September 20:
NEW VOICES FROM THE SOUTH
7:00 at the Baton Rouge Gallery
Our kick-off event stars the two newest additions to LSU's celebrated creative writing faculty: fiction writer
Jennifer S. Davis (Her Kind of Want, Our Former Lives in Art) and poet Metta Sama (South of Here, Nocturne Trio).
Jennifer S. Davis (Her Kind of Want, Our Former Lives in Art) and poet Metta Sama (South of Here, Nocturne Trio).
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Monday, October 29:
SHIFTING BORDERLANDS: LATINO/A POETRY, FOLKLORE & PERFORMANCE
7:00; Hopkins Black Box Theater, LSU Coates Hall
Join us for an invigorating evening with acclaimed scholar and writer, Norma Cantu and poet and performance artist Rodrigo Toscano!
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