NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL!

Here are some photos from the New Orleans Poetry Festival

April 20-23, 2017 Overall Schedule

My reading was on April 22, Saturday, 10 a.m. with Tinfish, in Room 1.

(Timothy Dyke, Mei Wa Lo and Susan Schultz hold my Locofo chapbooks at the Tinfish table)

(Charles Alexander is amazed (!) reading from Puneta: Political Pilipinx Poetry)

(A pleasure to meet Lee Herrick, here with some chapbooks)

(I read for Tinfish with (left to right) Lisa Samuels, Timothy Dyke, Mei Wa Lo and Susan Schultz)

NAPA TEEN POETRY SLAM

Judge, Napa Teen Poetry Slam

4:00 p.m.

Wed., April 19, 2017

Napa Public Library

Napa, CA

Winning Teen Poets with their Book Prizes

Melinda, Napa Public Library Teen Librarian

(one of the prizes was a book I published through Meritage Press)

While at the Napa Public Library, I checked out their Poetry Section and it was good to see one of my books displayed: THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems

READING AT BERKELEY ART MUSEUM

BAMPFA Reading, Berkeley, CA

Spring Series, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archives

w/ Lorraine Lupo & Mg Roberts

April 14, 2017

6 p.m.

2155 Center Street

Berkeley, CA

What a lovely crowd in attendance! Met Micah Ballard, Kit Robinson and Lorraine Lupo for first time! And always lovely to see Laura Moriarty, among many others! And it's always good when one arrives bearing food gifts, in this case Pangasinan salt from Michelle Bautista!

Above & Below: curator Sunnylyn Thibodeaux

Michelle reads to Gabby while Mg Roberts looks on!

A kid raised going to poetry readings!

Great gift for the poet!

BOOK LAUNCHES FOR BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE U.K. & ROMANIA

Our launch/reading with memoirist Audrey Ward (pictured in photos below) was a blast at Napa Bookmine. Here are photos with Audrey and bluegrass musicians:

EVENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT:

In 2017, Eileen R. Tabios released two books outside the U.S. :

THE OPPOSITE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA (Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, U.K.)
and
YOUR FATHER IS BALD: Selected Hay(na)ku Poems (Bibliotheca Universalis, Romania)

which will have their U.S. launches during the American National Poetry Month at

NAPA BOOKMINE

7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

964 Pearl Street 

Napa, California 

Reading from several books & U.S. Book Launch for The Opposite of Claustrophobia

accompanied by

Audrey Ward, author of Hidden Biscuits: Tales of Deep South Revivals Told by Heart

and musicians Ron and Esther Brunswick

The public is invited!