This 1-hour poetry workshop for French-speakers will be led by performer Joce Mienniel & poet Frédéric Forte. This will take place at the Contemporary Art Center in downtown New Orleans. You can attend this event in-person or virtually. Sign up for this workshop at https://nolapoetry.com/contact/2025_workshops

The NOPF Roadshow kicks off this year's festival on the road at Cavalier Books in Lafayette, LA. In partnership with the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Conseil pour le développement du français en Louisiane, the Division of the Arts, and Cavalier Books, this event features French poets Virginie Poitrasson and Frédéric Forte and French-American …

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The New Orleans Poetry Festival takes the show on the road to Thibodaux in 2025. In partnership with the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Conseil pour le développement du français en Louisiane & the Division of the Arts, and Nicholls State University, this bilingual French/English event features French performers Virginie Poitrasson, Frédéric Forte, Michelle …

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As part of Louisiana State Poet Laureate, Alison Pelegrin’s Lifelines Poetry Project and in partnership with the New Orleans Poetry Festival, Louisiana State Penitentiary—commonly known as Angola—opens its gates to poetry in an unprecedented event of artistic expression and solidarity. This landmark performance brings together renowned poets to transform a space long defined by confinement …

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A virtual (zoom) poetry workshop for French-language teachers led by Frédéric Forte. Forte currently co-heads the MFA in Creative Writing in Le Havre (ESADHaRF.) He has been a member of the well-known Oulipo (Workshop of Potential Literature) since 2005 and leads Oulipo-inspired workshops across France for a wide range of students of all ages. You can sign up …

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The New Orleans Poetry Festival expands uptown for an early-bird special "lecture musicale" featuring French poet Virginie Poitrasson and French musician Joce Mienniel. Sponsored by the French and Italian Department and the Kathryn B. Gore Chair in French at Tulane University, and in partnership with the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Conseil pour le développement …

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In partnership with the Conseil pour le développement du français en Louisiane & the Division of the Arts, our annual International Night features four award-winning French creators from Paris: Frédéric Forte of Oulipo, Virginie Poitrasson, Joce Mienniel, and Michelle Noteboom, who will perform a bilingual set of poetry and jazz improvisation. The performance will begin …

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