Poets Bill Lavender, Sean F. Munro, and Rodrigo Toscano talk with Roxi Power about the wildly successful annual event they organize: The New Orleans Poetry Festival. In the second half, they read their own poems, each of which buzz with national and global currents. Festival co-founder Bill Lavender reads from his opus-in-progress which he started writing during the January 6 insurrection, The City of God, named after Augustine of Hippo’s book of the same name. Rodrigo Toscano: “We’re not impresarios of poetic labor. We’re here to build relationships: international, regional, and national. Atomization is what most Americans are experiencing. Alienation to the hilt. And there’s no better culture than New Orleans to attack that alienation…through the joyful celebration of the art that we’ve devoted our lives to: poetry.
Find out more about The New Orleans Poetry Festival at https://www.nolapoetry.com/
Bill Lavender: https://www.lavenderink.org/
Sean F. Munro: https://www.seanfmunro.com/
Rodrigo Toscano: https://rodrigotoscano.com/
The Hive Poetry Collective 