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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

ment in 1993, Readers & Writers has been instrumental in helping Baton Rouge realize this potential, bringing internationally renowned and award-winning novelists, poets, playwrights, and performers to the city and creating events that provide thoughtful, moving, funny, and always rewarding interactions with people from all over our community. Over the last two decades, Readers & Writers has brought in over 100 nationally-celebrated writers who have shared their work with Louisiana, including Martin Espada, C.D. Wright, Patricia Smith, Billy Collins, Tillie Olsen, Allan Gurganus, Bhanu Kapil, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Readers & Writers is a non-profit organization, and we depend entirely on voluntary contributions. As state support dwindles, the Friends of Readers & Writers have become even more vital to sustaining our programming. Every cent we take in goes toward sponsoring events that are crucial to sustaining the artistic and intellectual life of Baton Rouge. We know you personally value participating in a vibrant cultural community. Please consider making a contribution to Readers & Writers, at whatever level you can afford. Become a member today, and help build a civic legacy that we can all take pride in. Edit
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Location Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
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Website http://www.lsureadersandwriters.com

07/15/2016

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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!

03/22/2016

Just a little over two weeks until our April 10th event! Check out this piece by the Advocate about Deborah Luster:

http://theadvocate.com/news/neworleans/4873925-148/ghost-town

Murder. Victim. Scene. Spirit. Photograph. The unrelenting specter of violence is turned into ethereal art via a distinctive vision by photographer Deborah Luster. Her exhibit, “Tooth for an Eye: A

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

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…

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.

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…

02/18/2016

Coming soon to Readers & Writers: playwright Joe Doss! (Apr. 10, 4pm, at the Baton Rouge Gallery) Check out this interview in South Writ Large: http://southwritlarge.com/bios/joe-morris-doss/

02/16/2016

Deborah Luster will be discussing her powerful photography and the theme of how art mediates suffering on April 10 at 4 p.m. at the Baton Rouge Gallery. See some of her work here: http://deborahluster.com/one_big_self #1

02/09/2016

Happy Mardi Gras! For a taste of our upcoming event (Apr. 10th, 4 p.m. ), take a look at photographer Deborah Luster's homepage: http://deborahluster.com/

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!

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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