ArtLit Café

Three Louisiana Authors Read

Phyllis Parun, Sara Jacobelli, and George Koschel read a selection of poetry, short fiction, and memoir. Book signing to follow.

Join us for an eclectic reading of poetry, fiction, and memoir by three New Orleans writers. The reading will be followed by a book signing and meet-and-greet with the authors. 

Sara Jacobelli has worked numerous jobs including dishwasher, busgirl, bartender, newspaper reporter, special education teacher, and librarian. Her flash fiction, short stories, and nonfiction have been published in various places including First Stop Fiction, Drunk Monkeys Literary Magazine, Bartleby Snopes, Fiction on the Web, The Story Shack, The New Laurel Review, One-Sentence Stories, Jambalaya and the New York Times Metropolitan Diary. 

George Koschel has had short stories, poetry, and essays published in a number of small independent literary journals, college affiliated journals, and online magazines starting in 1978. Some of these include A & U, Coe Review, Colere, Ellipsis, glbtq on-line encyclopedia, Nebo, New Laurel Review, RFD, and Trajectory. Currently he works as an assistant editor for New Laurel Review. Since 1992, he's volunteered at NOAIDS doing HIV test counseling. For the past three years he's also been doing stand up (comedy, he hopes) at various open mic nights in New Orleans.   

Phyllis Parun — a New Orleans native, visual artist, and writer, educated at LSU New Orleans, LSU Baton Rouge, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard — began her lifelong path as a culturer in the arts beginning at the New Orleans Public Library Artists Information Bureau in 1976. She has published interviews, articles, essays, plays, poems, and e-Zines on wide variety topics in local and national publications including cover art, illustrations, photography, and essays. Her social-political activism is documented in Veteran Feminists of America, and Remapping Second-Wave-Feminism: 1950-97. Ms. Parun has received grants from the Puffin Foundation and Poets and Writers and authored five books of poetry: New Orleans Born, New Orleans between Poetry and the Blues, Love's Arrows, Oasis, and My Dance with Time. 

Sponsored by the New Orleans Avant-Garde.

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