PLACE, MEMORY, AND BELONGING: NEW POETRY FROM NEW ORLEANS

From Homer’s Odyssey to Walcott’s Omeros, poets have always been captivated by questions of place, memory, and belonging: how rootedness creates commitments and allegiances, and how both our sense of place and our sense of ourselves shift over time. Exploring this theme in powerful new collections are four New Orleans-based poets: Benjamin Morris (The Singing River, Belle Point Press), M.A. Nicholson (Around the Gate, The Word Works), Peter Cooley (Accounting for the Dark, Carnegie Mellon), and Andy Young (Museum of the Soon to Depart, Carnegie Mellon). Join us for a stirring conversation moderated by Dr. Stacey Balkun (Sweetbitter, Sundress Publications) about who, what, and why we call things home.