On the 2nd day of February (Tuesday), featured reader Lara Glenum will read from her poetry at 7pm at the Columns Hotel. In addition to having published two books of poetry, The Hounds of No and Maximum Gaga, Glenum is also the co-editor of Gurlesque. She is a translator of the Czech language, [...]

The first 1718 event of 2010 will be held Tuesday, January 19th at 7pm! Our featured reader, Ed Skoog, is flying in from Seattle and is the author of “Mister Skylight.” Though Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, he served as an Adjunct Instructor at both U.N.O. and Tulane, taught poetry at N.O.C.C.A. [...]

I hope you didn’t miss December’s reading! Joseph Boyden interspersed Canadian jokes–the repeating of which this American dares not attempt–between his readings: creative non-fiction and excerpts from two of his novels (part of a proposed trilogy). Perhaps this was to lighten the rather somber mood of his readings; the non-fiction pieces were tied together by [...]