Out of the long silence a telegram from where I am. Reading, of course, and why not bathe my chronic melancholia in a bit of October Gothic as the days darken toward Halloween. “October Count...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/the-october-country/
Not only words in his mouth but what look like feathers, clamped tight in his teeth like an anxious gambler’s cigarette. Cat eyed and smiling at the bar, he caught beauty perched on a stool and...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/bukowskis-bluebird/
This week in literary New Orleans: & Monday at 5 pm at the East New Orleans Regional Library New Orleans Spoken Word Artists will present its monthly workshop which include poetry writing and per...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/06/05/odd-words-this-week-in-literary-new-orleans-25/
If you are curious why this blog is so quiet, I’m jealous. Curiosity is an active state, incompatible with a depressive cycle of Manic Depression II. I’ll be back. I always come back, or at l...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/curiosity-killed/
This week in literary New Orleans: & All local libraries will be closed Monday in observance of Memorial Day. & Come meet New Orleans-based, New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr presenti...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/odd-words-this-week-in-literary-new-orleans-24/
This week in literary New Orleans: & Monday at 6 pm Garden District Book Shop (2727 Prytania) will host Michael Murphy in conversation with Stanton Moore, Meschiya Lake, and Jan Ramsey. Michae...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/odd-words-this-week-in-literary-new-orleans-23/
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https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/05/08/the-trystero/
& On Saturday, May 7 New Orleans indie book shops host their celebration of Independent Bookstore Day, just a little behind the rest of the country due to Jazz Fest. To celebrate Independent Book...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/odd-words-this-week-in-literary-new-orleans-22/
This week in literary New Orleans: & Tuesday at 4 pm at the Keller Library the New Orleans Youth Open Mic (NOYOM) is excited to host monthly writing workshops. Facilitated by Team Slam New Orlean...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/odd-words-this-week-in-literary-new-orleans-21/
This week in literary New Orleans: & Meet Amber Tamblyn, actress, writer, film director, and poet, when she reads from and signs DARK SPARKLER at Octavia Books on Monday at 6 pm. Here is the Amer...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/04/17/odd-words-this-week-in-literary-new-orleans-20/
At this point they throw open the discussion. Events, characters, settings, impressions are thrust aside, to make room for the general concepts. “The polymorphic-perverse sexuality…” “The...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/04/17/i-have-a-theory/
I have never shied away in this space from discussing my personal situation. It makes for a strange mix, the literary stuff–Odd Words the occasional poem, the quotes–and a personal journal I ...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/coming-out-crazy/
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particula...
This week in literary New Orleans: & This coming weekend brings New Orleans first Poetry Festival, sponsored by local publishers Trembling Pillow Press and Lavender Ink Press. The event will host...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/odd-words-this-week-in-literary-new-orleans-19/
In a row of canted half-drowned oblong stones the park ends & the wild begins again. Stand back in awe of the anhinga’s wings drying in the sun on the horizontal branches of a half-drowned fall...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/04/06/the-ophelia-tree/
This week in literary New Orleans: & Monday at 7 pm at the East Jefferson Regional Library the East Jefferson Writer’s Group meets. This is a critique group for serious fiction writers of all l...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/odd-words-this-week-in-literary-new-orleans-18/
It is the fragment of a song the symptomatic single verse which best represents mania stuck in its groove, free from the ADD-inspired pinball wizardry of random light & bells the silver balls o...
& The 30th Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival is upon us. Check out the program for the Festival, which runs March 30-April 3, and the our box office is now open and ...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/03/27/odd-words-this-week-in-literary-new-orleans-17/
“Don’t get hung up about Easter.” — Leon Russell Veronica like Mary is simply a vessel. I believe that is the correct term from my catechism. Faceless before her savior. Simply a womb-s...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/gaudis-veronica/
The riverboat whistles echo from the wrong direction, bouncing off the two-story gutted shell next door on the Lake side, resonating perhaps in the neighboring emptiness like the body of a guitar...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/the-messenger-wind/
& Just around the corner the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival celebrates 30 years of theatrical, literary, and cultural offerings, hosts a stellar lineup at its annual event M...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/odd-words-this-week-in-literary-new-orleans-16/
in 130 pages. I am in awe. Wandering Time: Western Notebooks by Luis Alberto Urrea My rating: 5 of 5 stars “All the road has been alive with incident and visions.” Behind that line is a book ...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/the-sublime/
This week in literary New Orleans: & Monday at 5:30 pm Tulane University’s NewDay Speaker Series features Saru Jayaraman author of FORKED: A New Standard for American Dining. A restaurant cr...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/odd-words-this-week-in-literary-new-orleans-15/
I set out as soon as the rain stopped, two solid days of drenching rain, to return to my urban forest. What began as purely physical exercise has morphed into something else. My GPS tracker tells...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/mystery-in-a-tree/
Now at the annual collision of our African, Celtic and Sicilian cultures, in this town where the African’s ripped from their villages and put into bondage were too valuable a property to risk s...
https://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/redemption-songs-2/