upcoming events

Book Launch Party: How To Leave Your Family | April 14th, 4-6 PM
@ Junk Drawer Coffee, 1042 Toledano St., New Orleans, LA 


Join us on Sunday, April 14 from 4–6 PM at Junk Drawer Coffee as we celebrate the launch of Maeve Holler's debut poetry collection, HOW TO LEAVE YOUR FAMILY! This event, hosted by Sports Drink Social Club, will feature:


MAEVE HOLLER is the author of HOW TO LEAVE YOUR FAMILY (Finishing Line Press, 2024). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in GASHER Journal, The Boiler Journal, Leveler, Scalawag, Wildness, Mantra Review, and elsewhere. Maeve is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets' 2020 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize for her poem, "SELF PORTRAIT AS BLACK HOLE," and was most recently nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami and a BA in English and Gender & Sexuality Studies from Tulane University. Outside of poetry, Maeve has served in editorial, communications, copywriting, and marketing roles for a variety of organizations. Maeve currently works as a Communications Manager and lives in New Orleans, LA. 

CAROLYN HEMBREE is the author of three poetry collections: For Today (LSU Press, 2024); Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague (Trio House Press, 2016), winner of the Trio Award and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award; and Skinny (Kore Press, 2012). Her poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Ninth Letter, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, and other publications. She received a 2016-2017 ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents and has also received grants and fellowships from PEN, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation. An associate professor in the University of New Orleans MFA program, she was awarded the university’s 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award. Carolyn serves as poetry editor of Bayou Magazine. Read more about Carolyn here.

KAYLA JACKSON is an interdisciplinary artist from New Orleans who believes that pursuing one passion doesn’t necessitate abandoning another. She blends visual arts, music, and spoken word to share stories about her surroundings. Kayla earned a Master of Arts in English Literature from Tulane University in 2018 and is now an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University.

The Splice Poetry Series: Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez & Maeve Holler | August 10th, 6 PM
@ Saturn Bar, 3067 St. Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 


Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez & Maeve Holler will read their poems at Saturn Bar on Saturday, August 10th @ 6:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public and is supported in part by http://litwire.org/

Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez is a Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text, image, archive, and translation. They are the author of La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas) and A/An (End of the Line Press). Their work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from The Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, Lambda Literary, The Center for Book Arts, TAKT Residency in Berlin, The Frost Place, Studios at MASS MoCA, and MacDowell. They teach creative writing at Clark University in Worcester, MA.

Maeve Holler is a writer, editor, educator, and author of HOW TO LEAVE YOUR FAMILY (Finishing Line Press, 2024). Her work has been published by Tolsun Books, The Boiler Journal, Leveler, Scalawag Magazine, The Cardiff Review, Wildness, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2020 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize and was recently nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize. Maeve holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami and a BA in English & Gender and Sexuality Studies from Tulane University. She currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.