Believable Fictions: A Poetry & Prose Reading Afternoon

Local and visiting writers and worldviews converge with the Fantastic Realities exhibition for a literary afternoon that blends the mundane and the surreal at the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM). 

On the occasion of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference, readers will flip the script on the famous notion passed down by the likes of Lord Byron and Mark Twain, that ‘truth is stranger than fiction’...presenting contemporary verse and fictions that give all the feels, the make-believe to make us believe (again)!

Readings from local authors: Clarinda Harriss, Gerry LaFemina, and Gregg Wilhelm, plus national and international poets and writers: Jessie Azkinazi, Jiwon Choi, Peyton Burgess, Vincent Cellucci, Kenning JP Garcia, Skye Jackson, Isobel O’Hare, Maurice Ruffin, and Christopher Shipman.

This event is co-organized by: Unlikely Books, Rigorous literary magazine, Dream Pop Press, and De Krewe de Louisiane.

Free with museum admission. Some readings may not be…