ALOUD featuring Lark Mattingly

Join us on the beautiful 2nd floor of Turtle Bay to enjoy another evening of poetry and bonhomie! Come early to enjoy the balcony over Decatur Street, and get yourself some good food and drinks.

Our feature will perform for a short set, then we’ll take a break before the open mic.

LARK MATTINGLY, our feature, is the product of two diasporas, second-generation Lithuanian-American and third-generation Irish-American. She operates as a community member in New Orleans in many capacities—poet and literary event organizer, barber-in-a-bar, and energy healer on call. Arriving in New Orleans in 2007 via a raft down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, she washed up on the open mic stages of the 17 Poet Literary Series and Maple Leaf readings, running writing groups and other music and poetry events, eventually co-organizing the annual literary events of Ladyfest New Orleans for five years.