Lavender Ink Book Release Party

Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans with his wife and three children and edits Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. His first full-length collection of poems, A Reading from the Book of Panic, was recently published by Lavender Ink.

Jonathan Penton founded the online journal Unlikely Stories in 1998, and still runs it as Editor-in-Chief. He is the Technical Director for the New Orleans Poetry Festival, and has served in editorial, management, and technical roles for numerous arts organizations, including Rigorous: a journal by BIPOC, MadHat, Inc., and Big Bridge. His own books of poems are A Limited Number of Miracles (Lavender Ink, 2025), BACKSTORIES (Argotist Ebooks, 2017), Standards of Sadiddy (Lit Fest Press, 2016), Prosthetic Gods (New Sins Press/Winged City Chapbooks, 2008), Painting Rust and Blood and Salsa (Unlikely Books, 2005), and Last Chap (Vergin’ Press, 2004). He lives in New Orleans with his family.
Ann Plicque, a New Orleans native, earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of New Orleans' Creative Writing Workshop. Her first poems were haiku in fifth grade at Blessed Sacrament School on Soniat and Constance streets with Blessed Sacrament sisters and Josephite fathers teaching. She's been scribbling ever since. Her new book is "New Barrier Islands," published by Lavender Ink.
Bill Lavender is a poet, novelist, musician, carpenter and publisher living in New Orleans. His twelfth book of poetry and magnum opus, appeared from MadHat Press in 2026. was published by BlazeVOX in October, 2019. His novel trilogy, (comprised of Q, Little A, and The Private I) was released in 2021 by Spuyten Duyvil. His verse memoir, , was published by Black Widow in 2011. He founded Lavender Ink, a small press devoted mainly to poetry, in 1995, and Diálogos, an imprint devoted to cross-cultural literatures (mostly in translation) in 2011. Lavender Ink/Diálogos now has more than 200 books in print. He is the co-founder, with Megan Burns of Trembling Pillow Press, of the New Orleans Poetry Festival.
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