{"id":1558,"date":"2018-04-08T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2018-04-07T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T17:07:18","slug":"nopf-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/announcements\/nopf-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"NOPF Approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolapoetry.com\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nolapoetry.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/nopf18badge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>The third iteration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolapoetry.com\">New Orleans Poetry Festival<\/a> kicks off in less than two weeks, on Friday evening, April 20. It has been rewarding and heartening to organize this gathering, which threatens to host some 200 poets this year. More than 30 small presses and journals are represented in our book fair, and we&#8217;re excited to have poets from as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand joining us, once again. If you haven&#8217;t already, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolapoetry.com\/2018Schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out the lineup and schedule<\/a> and do what you can to get here and add your own voice to the conversation, which will include more than 60 readings, panels and workshops, with concurrent events running all day Saturday and Sunday and features on Friday and Saturday nights.<\/p>\n<p>Our goal with the fest, originated and organized by Lavender Ink\/Di\u00e1logos and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tremblingpillowpress.com\">Trembling Pillow<\/a> presses, has been to both celebrate and augment our local poetic community, bringing national and international poets and writers to New Orleans and vice versa. 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