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Jonathan Penton

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Jonathan Penton founded the e-journal Unlikely Stories in 1998 and still runs it as Editor-in-Chief. He has served in technical and administrative roles for a number of literary and arts organizations, including the New Orleans Poetry Festival, Rigorous: a journal by BIPOC, and Big Bridge. His previous books of poetry include Standards of Sadiddy and Prosthetic Gods. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, with his family.

 

Schedule

10:45 am to 11:45 am
Outside Museum, West Tent
The Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets, Vol I
Taylor Clement, do not destroy this: Poems
Rodney Jones, The Body and the End of Time: Poems Selected & New, 1985-2025
Justin Lacour, A Reading from the Book of Panic
Jonathan Penton, A Limited Number of Miracles: A Walk Through the New Orleans Sculpture Garden
Jennifer Polson Peterson, Degenerate Era of an Expanding Universe: Poems
with Gina Ferrara

Noon to 12:45 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

A Limited Number of Miracles: A Walk Through the New Orleans Sculpture Garden

In A Limited Number of Miracles: a walk through the New Orleans Sculpture Garden, poet Jonathan Penton explores sixty-six pieces from the Sculpture Garden and the feelings they evoke. He uses these sculptures to process and discuss themes of grief, family, relationships, and sexuality. The result is a complex tome of ekphrasis and emotion, covering a wide range of subjects and themes, all centered in the beautiful New Orleans Sculpture Garden.