nyflp takes center stage at sites throughout New Orleans, The Big Easy, on the Fingers Lakes to Lake Pontchartrain Tour. The March 4 to 8 series of poetry readings and talks is the first in a series of exchanges organized by the group to showcase the quality and variety of creative writing and artists throughout New York state. The aim is to establish ties and talent exchanges with writers and creative writing programs in New Orleans and other parts of the country to open the New York Finger Lakes region writers to other literary styles, skills and perspectives. Highlights of the tour:
• A March 5 reading to students and faculty at Loyola University of New Orleans, sponsored by the English Department, Creative Writing and Women’s Studies faculties.
• That same evening, nyflp is featured at the 17 Poets! Reading Series, hosted by Bill Lavender, University of New Orleans director of the Creative Writing MFA Residency and managing editor of University of New Orleans Press.
• nyflp headlines on March 6 at The Olde Towne Arts Center Reading Series in Slidell, Louisiana.
