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		<title>Nicole Cooley reads Tuesday the 13th!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This upcoming Tuesday the 13th, Nicole Cooley will read from her newly published collection of poems Breach at the Columns Hotel.  Cooley is a New Orleans native who received her B.A. from Brown University, her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her PhD from Emory University and is the daughter of New Orleans poet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rikki Ducornet reads March 2nd!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This upcoming Tuesday, March 2nd, Rikki Ducornet will be reading at the Columns Hotel.  Ducornet is a renowned novelist, poet, and artist.  She has published seven novels, two short-story collections, five books of poetry, illustrated Jorge Luis Borge’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” and has lived in four different continents.  Her paintings, illustrations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seventeeneighteen.com/208/rikki-ducornet-reads-march-2nd</link>
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		<title>Laura Glenum wrap up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February has been a great month for New Orleans, but let&#8217;s not forget the great 1718 reading that happened on February 2nd!
Although the room was not quite as packed as it normally is, the reading went very well; Lara Glenum has a great stage presence. Her poetry really came to life through the careful rhythm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seventeeneighteen.com/205/laura-glenum-wrap-up</link>
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		<title>Lara Glenum reads February 2nd!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seventeeneighteen.com/203/lara-glenum-reads-february-2nd</link>
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		<title>1718 Presents Ed Skoog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seventeeneighteen.com/200/1718-presents-ed-skoog</link>
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		<title>2009 Wrap-Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope you didn&#8217;t miss December&#8217;s reading! Joseph Boyden interspersed Canadian jokes&#8211;the repeating of which this American dares not attempt&#8211;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seventeeneighteen.com/198/2009-wrap-up</link>
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		<title>Joseph Boyden to read on December 8th!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last event of the fall season, Joseph Boyden will read Tuesday, December 8th at 7pm at the Columns Hotel.  Boyden is an internationally renowned Canadian fiction writer who won the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel, Through Black Spruce.  His first novel, Three Day Road, has won numerous awards including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seventeeneighteen.com/196/joseph-boyden-to-read-on-december-8th</link>
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		<title>Thomas Beller&#8217;s Reading a Success!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To say the evening began with a bit of excitement would be an understatement! Despite a few necessary furniture rearrangements, our dear Lesley staving off illness, and the appearance of a celebrity, the reading was quite phenomenal, and our beautiful room at the Columns Hotel was packed! Thomas Beller read an essay entitled &#8220;Ipod on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seventeeneighteen.com/194/thomas-bellers-reading-a-success</link>
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		<title>Thomas Beller reads November 3rd!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This upcoming Tuesday, November 3rd, Creative non-fiction and fiction writer Thomas Beller will read at 1718.  Beller is a professor at Tulane University.  Beller has published a collection of short stories entitled Seduction Theory, a Los Angeles Times Best Book Award winning novel The Sleep-Over Artist and a collection of autobiographical essays entitled How to Be a Man: Scenes from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seventeeneighteen.com/187/thomas-beller-reads-november-3rd</link>
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		<title>Cate Marvin reads Oct. 6th!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cate Marvin will be arriving from New York to read for 1718 this upcoming Tuesday, October 6th.  Marvin has published two books of poetry, including “Fragment of the Head of a Queen,” and co-edited the American poet anthology “Legitimate Dangers.”  Marvin has received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, a Whiting Award, and has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seventeeneighteen.com/174/cate-marvin-reads-oct-6th</link>
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