The 2024 New Orleans Poetry Festival
On April 20, 2024, five Unlikely poets participated in the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Here is the footage of Christopher Shipman, shot at St. Roch Tavern in New Orleans.
Christopher Shipman (he/him) lives on Eno, Sappony, & Shakori land in Greensboro, NC, where he teaches literature & creative writing at New Garden Friends School & plays drums in the rock band The Goodbye Horses. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Fence, Poetry, the Southern Review, & elsewhere. His experimental play Metaphysique D’ Ephemera has been staged at four universities. He was a recent finalist for a Courage to Write grant from the de Groot Foundation and a recent nominee for a Pushcart. Getting Away with Everything (Unlikely Books, 2021), in collaboration with Vincent Cellucci, is his most recent collection. More at www.cshipmanwriting.com.
