February: Tom Piazza Wrap-Up

 

Despite frequent cloudbursts on Tuesday night, many faces both familiar and new attended Mr. Tom’s reading.  1718’s Lesley Lucas began the evening with a lovely reading from Frank O’Hara’s collection “Lunch Poems.”  Tom read from an extended non-fiction piece describing a boxed set of Charley Chan mystery movies as his saving grace in the “oceanic” heat of the summer of 2006.  The audience was fully engaged and had the opportunity to ask Tom many questions ranging from writing advice to movie critiques.  Tom signed books and was visibly glowing after such a bang-up reading.

 

Student readers from Tulane, UNO, and Loyola followed the intermission.  A large crowd stayed behind and was rewarded for their faith – two knockout poets and a spellbinding fiction reader delivered in the standard of excellence for 1718 student readers.

 

Stay tuned, faithful 1718 fans!  Tuesday March 10^th we will present Jarret Lofstead, Senior Editor and Publisher of NOLAFugees.com.  We are very excited to have this dedicated and talented New Orleans figure, so come on out to the Columns on March 10^th!  Catch some of the infamous satire of NOLAFugees via the following links

 

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=41124619

 

http://blog.nola.com/susanlarson/2008/11/the_wicked_satirists_of_nolafu.html

 

http://nolafugeespress.com/?page_id=47

 

See you at the Columns…

 

~1718