Reading Featuring Rickey Laurentiis March 10 | 7 PM
As part of the annual New Orleans New Writers Literary Festival for high school students, Lusher Charter and NOCCA will present a free public reading with poet Rickey Laurentiis, a New Orleans native, in Nims Blackbox Theatre on Thursday, March 10, 7 PM. Reception to follow. Learn more about the poet here. As a special addition, fiction writer Carlus Henderson will also read.
Rickey Laurentiis was raised in New Orleans. He is the author of Boy with Thorn, selected by Terrance Hayes for the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and named one of the Top 16 Best Poetry Books by Buzzfeed. He was named one of the top ten debut poets of 2015 by Poets & Writers Magazine, and his poems have appeared in journals, including Callaloo, Feminist Studies, jubilat, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, Oxford American and Poetry. He currently teaches at Columbia University.
Carlus Henderson
A former recipient of The NFAA Gold Award, and the Zell Fellowship in Writing, as well as short-listed for The Presidential Scholar’s Award, Carlus Henderson is a writer based in New Orleans. His work has appeared in Callaloo, The Offing, & The Smoking Section. He splits his time, his writing, and his imagination between South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana.