Readers & Writers

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Readers & Writers is LSU's premiere literary reading series, bringing acclaimed poets, novelists, and playwrights from around the world to Baton Rouge.

As the home of Louisiana's flagship university and capital city of a state teeming with cultural diversity and a rich artistic heritage, Baton Rouge has the potential to be an important artistic crossroads -- the sort ofplace where writers from all over the world come to share their work and engage in lively conversation with a uniquely engaged audience. Since originating in the LSU English Depart

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04/09/2016

The last event of the season is upon us! Tomorrow, April 10th, 4 pm at the Baton Rouge Gallery with Joe Doss and Deborah Luster. See you there!

04/05/2016

Only five more days until our upcoming Readers and Writers event--FREE and open to the community! This weekend, Sunday April 10th, 4pm at the Baton Rouge Gallery, the event will feature playwright Joe Doss and photographer Deborah Luster and a discussion on how art mediates suffering. We look forward to seeing you there!

Play examines the value of human life and our prejudicial legal system 03/01/2016

Check out a review of Joe Doss's play, "Song of a Man Coming Through," in the LaFourche Gazette: http://www.tlgnewspaper.com/play-examines-the-value-of-human-life-and-our-prejudicial-legal-system

Play examines the value of human life and our prejudicial legal system I recently went to see the world premiere production of the play Song of a Man Coming Through by Joe Morris Doss and his son Andrew Doss. Joe Doss is an Episcopal Bishop and a lawyer and his son Andrew is an attorney and studying theology at Yale University. The play is based on the true Louisiana s…

After Mother's Murder, Artist Photographs Prisoners 02/23/2016

Upcoming Readers & Writers guest Deborah Luster was featured on NPR, discussing her work with prison photography. Check it out here: http://www.npr.org/2010/06/30/128212442/after-mothers-murder-artist-photographs-prisoners. Then join us on April 10th (4 p.m. at the Baton Rouge Gallery) to hear more about how art can mediate suffering.

After Mother's Murder, Artist Photographs Prisoners On April 1, 1988, Deborah Luster's mother was murdered in her bed by a contract killer who came in through her kitchen window, walked down her hall and shot her five times in the head. Luster, who was 37 at the time of the murder, says she was able to "dig out" of the "mess" she found herself in by…

Readers and Writers 02/04/2016

Just a little over two months until our next event, so mark your calendars! We'll be discussing how art mediates suffering with Joe Doss and Deborah Luster at the Baton Rouge Gallery Apr. 10 at 4 p.m. See http://www.lsureadersandwriters.com/ for more details, and stay tuned for sneak peeks about our visiting artists!

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11/07/2015

Join us tomorrow for a discussion with Jericho Brown, co-hosted by the New Delta Review. 4:00 p.m. at the Baton Rouge Gallery (1515 Dalrymple Drive).

11/04/2015

The countdown is on! Four days until our discussion with poet Jericho Brown, co-hosted by the New Delta Review at the Baton Rouge Gallery, 4.pm, on Sunday Nov. 8. Admission is free and open to the public!

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