3 Muses, 2 Readers, 1 Mic

I am extremely excited to announce that Miss Sophie Lee has tapped me to host a reading at 3 Muses. On October 26th, I have the pleasure of presenting two of my favorite writers in the city of New Orleans, Ariel Francisco and Carolyn Hembree. So please come out to 3 Muses, 536 Frenchmen Street, on Saturday, October 26th, from 2-4 PM, and enjoy these amazing writers.

Please read below for Ariel and Carolyn’s bios. And please come to 3 Muses and enjoy some amazing food, cocktails, and beautiful readings.

Carolyn Hembree’s third poetry collection, For Today, was published by LSU Press. She has been awarded the Trio Award, the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, an ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents, and grants and fellowships from PEN, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation. She is a professor in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans and serves as the poetry editor of Bayou Magazine. www.carolynhembree.com

Ariel Francisco is the author of All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins (Burrow Press, 2024), Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press, 2022), and A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020), and the translator of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud’s Poet of One Island (Get Fresh Books, 2024) and Guatemalan poet Hael Lopez’s Routines/Goodbyes (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, POETRY Magazine, The New York City Ballet, Latino Book Review, and elsewhere. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.