Mark Lipman, US National Beat Poet Laureate 2024-2025,is the founder of the press Vagabond, the Culver City Book Festival, and the Elba Poetry Festival; winner of the 2015 Joe Hill Labor Poetry Award; the 2016 International Latino Book Award and the 2023 L’Alloro di Dante (Dante’s Laurel – Ravenna, Italy), a writer, poet, multi-media artist, activist and author of fifteen books, began his career as the writer-in residence at the world famous Shakespeare and Company in Paris, France (2002-2003). Since then he has worked closely with such legendary poets as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Hirschman on many projects, and for the last twenty years has established a strong international following as a leading voice of his generation. He’s the host and foreign correspondent for the radio program, Poetry from Around the World, for Poets Café on KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles. As Mark continues to travel the world, he uses poetry to connect communities to the greater social justice issues, while building consciousness through the spoken word.
Location: Lafayette No. 1 Cemetery. Across the street from the Garden District Bookshop.
Saturday May 17th, 4-5 p.m. Poetry Reading from the bus’s stage
Featuring: Claire Conroy, Damian Rucci, Alexander Ragsdale, Avila Sol-Rey, PW Covington, Dan Denton, Michael Duckwall, Frogg Corpse, John Succi, Ron Whitehead.
