Saints & Sinners
A fellow blogger asked me to cover one of the panels at the 2011 Saints & Sinners Literary Festival and thereby introduced me to it, as it always followed too close on the heels of the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival and Jazz Fest to pique my interest. But having gone yesterday for only one panel to whet my appetite, I’m sorry that it has taken me this long to notice it. And I was even sorrier that enough folks weren’t there to listen to these writers who are writing the life of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or just plain Other.
I went wanting to see Michael Montlack who had intrigued me with a poem that bemoaned a womanless world (this after my being on the Geaux Gay podcast at It’sNewOrleans where my cohort admitted to preferring a womanless world much to my chagrin), and so I was not disappointed when this handsome, stylish man in brown plaid pants (anyone who wears plaid pants goes up a notch in my book) took the stage, but it was also good to hear Sally Bellerose and other voices from this universe.
I came home with a Lesbian Erotica collection and Montlack’s Cool Limbo and before we went out last night, I read to T and a friend The Hummus Sexual, which I posted here a while back and both were duly impressed.
To all you New Orleans revelers who trip the light fantastic with live music, there is more this city has to offer – poetry, literature, and art – now go out and support your other festivals.