National Poetry Month Reading
Join us on Friday, April 23 at 6pm CT for a poetry reading in celebration of National Poetry Month and Independent Bookstore Day! Local poet Brad Richard will emcee the reading, which will feature Jerika Marchan, Tiana Nobile, and Naomi Winston. This event will livestream to Facebook, YouTube, and our website homepage.
ABOUT JERIKA MARCHAN
Jerika Marchan is the author of SWOLE (Futurepoem, 2018), her debut book. She was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the American South. A graduate of Louisiana State University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
ABOUT TIANA NOBILE
Tiana Nobile is a Korean American adoptee, Kundiman fellow, and recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. A finalist of the National Poetry Series and Kundiman Poetry Prize, she is the author of CLEAVE (Hub City Press, 2021). Her writing has appeared in Poetry Northwest, The New Republic, Guernica, Southern Cultures, and the Texas Review, among others. Tiana received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, MAT in Elementary and Special Education from the University of New Orleans, and MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
ABOUT NAOMI WINSTON
Naomi Winston is a senior at Xavier University of Louisiana. She is the owner of Revolutionary Hearts Industries, which is a company that focuses on representation, social activism, and mental health awareness for and within the Black community. She has published two books of poetry, The Revolutionary Heart and The Art of Love, and two coloring books, Black Women are the Future and Black Men are the Future.
ABOUT BRAD RICHARD
Brad Richard is the author of four books of poems (Habitations, Motion Studies, Butcher’s Sugar, Parasite Kingdom) and three chapbooks (The Men in the Dark, Curtain Optional, Larval Songs], and has published poems and reviews in many journals, including Green Mountains Review, New Orleans Review, Plume, Guernica, American Letters & Commentary, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review and Massachusetts Review. He has taught creative writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and Lusher Charter School, and is a faculty member of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop for Teachers.
Richard was the 2002 winner of the Poets & Writers, Inc. Writers Exchange Award in Poetry; a 2002 Louisiana Division of the Arts Literature Fellow; 2010 winner of The Washington Prize, and 2011 finalist for The Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, both for Motion Studies; 2015 Louisiana Artist of the Year; and 2018 winner of The Tenth Gate Prize for Parasite Kingdom. He also co-founded and directed the New Orleans New Writers Literary Festival (2007-2016), and also founded and directs the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of South Louisiana (2008-present). With poet Elizabeth Gross, he directs an occasional LGBTQ+ reading series, The Waves.