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Posts in support of the Unlikely Stories on-line magazine of art & literature and Unlikely Books. Unlikely Stories was founded July 1, 1998.
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Posts by Jonathan Penton
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https://www.unlikelystories.org/
Posts by Jonathan Penton
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IN ONE WEEK! Rodger Kamenetz and I will be reading at the Everette Maddox Memorial Reading Series at the Maple Leaf Bar, the longest-running open mic series in North America! Hope to see you there, and thanks so much to Nancy Harris for allowing us to feature! #nola #neworleans #poetry #openmic
November 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
IN ONE WEEK! Rodger Kamenetz and I will be reading at the Everette Maddox Memorial Reading Series at the Maple Leaf Bar, the longest-running open mic series in North America! Hope to see you there, and thanks so much to Nancy Harris for allowing us to feature! #nola #neworleans #poetry #openmic
New Orleans poets will be part of the Everette Maddox Poetry & Prose Reading Series at the Maple Leaf Bar! Rodger Kamenetz will read his book of prose, "Seeing into the Life of Things," & Jonathan Penton will read his book of poems, "A Limited Number of Miracles." #poetry #NewOrleans #NOLA #openmic
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New Orleans poets will be part of the Everette Maddox Poetry & Prose Reading Series at the Maple Leaf Bar! Rodger Kamenetz will read his book of prose, "Seeing into the Life of Things," & Jonathan Penton will read his book of poems, "A Limited Number of Miracles." #poetry #NewOrleans #NOLA #openmic
ONE WEEK! We'll hear pro-democracy, anti-fascist music, poetry, & other writing with a literary open mic! Get ready for Josh Benitez, NaTRILL Dizaster, Andy Young, Daniel W. K. Lee, Cid Galicia, Rel Farrar, Scythe Sylvia, Briana Augustus, & Russ Mercado & the No-Law Solidarity Choir! #falloffreedom
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
ONE WEEK! We'll hear pro-democracy, anti-fascist music, poetry, & other writing with a literary open mic! Get ready for Josh Benitez, NaTRILL Dizaster, Andy Young, Daniel W. K. Lee, Cid Galicia, Rel Farrar, Scythe Sylvia, Briana Augustus, & Russ Mercado & the No-Law Solidarity Choir! #falloffreedom
OG Unlikely compatriot Vernon Frazer is back, with two multi-page typographical poems in his signature visual style at unlikelystories.org/content/grou...
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
OG Unlikely compatriot Vernon Frazer is back, with two multi-page typographical poems in his signature visual style at unlikelystories.org/content/grou...
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 8PM! Get ready for a night of pro-democracy, anti-fascist poetry, music, and literature in support of the #FallofFreedom movement! There will be featured artists and a literary open mic, so come share your pro-democracy work! Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., New Orleans.
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 8PM! Get ready for a night of pro-democracy, anti-fascist poetry, music, and literature in support of the #FallofFreedom movement! There will be featured artists and a literary open mic, so come share your pro-democracy work! Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., New Orleans.
I won't be able to attend #awp26 in person, so they're letting me zoom my presentation in! I'll be "joining" Jessie Askinazi, Michael Ian Black, Hannah Cohen, and Kenning JP García on THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 10:35am to present "More than Memory: The Art of Jewish Storytelling in Creative Nonfiction!"
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I won't be able to attend #awp26 in person, so they're letting me zoom my presentation in! I'll be "joining" Jessie Askinazi, Michael Ian Black, Hannah Cohen, and Kenning JP García on THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 10:35am to present "More than Memory: The Art of Jewish Storytelling in Creative Nonfiction!"
Bar Redux and Unlikely Stories present a night of pro-democracy, anti-fascist art supporting the Fall of Freedom movement! Presenting music, poetry, and other writings, a silent procession for free speech, and a literary open mic. Tues, Nov 25, 8pm in New Orleans!
www.facebook.com/events/13470...
www.facebook.com/events/13470...
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Bar Redux and Unlikely Stories present a night of pro-democracy, anti-fascist art supporting the Fall of Freedom movement! Presenting music, poetry, and other writings, a silent procession for free speech, and a literary open mic. Tues, Nov 25, 8pm in New Orleans!
www.facebook.com/events/13470...
www.facebook.com/events/13470...
For November's visual art presentation, Unlikely Stories Six brings the digital imagery of Edward Michael Supranowicz! Check out his six images at unlikelystories.org/content/six-...
November 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
For November's visual art presentation, Unlikely Stories Six brings the digital imagery of Edward Michael Supranowicz! Check out his six images at unlikelystories.org/content/six-...
It's time to celebrate Jonathan Penton's new book, "A Limited Number of Miracles: a walk through the New Orleans Sculpture Garden" from Lavender Ink! Come to Bar Redux on Tuesday, November 18 at 8pm and hear poetry from Skye Jackson, Carolyn Hembree, Laura Mattingly, and Jonathan Penton!
October 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It's time to celebrate Jonathan Penton's new book, "A Limited Number of Miracles: a walk through the New Orleans Sculpture Garden" from Lavender Ink! Come to Bar Redux on Tuesday, November 18 at 8pm and hear poetry from Skye Jackson, Carolyn Hembree, Laura Mattingly, and Jonathan Penton!
Here it is: the full cover of my forthcoming book, "A Limited Number of Miracles!" We should have copies within the next few weeks, so pre-order it now at www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/a-limited-number-of-miracles/
October 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here it is: the full cover of my forthcoming book, "A Limited Number of Miracles!" We should have copies within the next few weeks, so pre-order it now at www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/a-limited-number-of-miracles/
Rest in Poetry, win harms.
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Rest in Poetry, win harms.
Come meet Pat Jolly, artist and cultural icon, who brings thirteen photographs exploring the past and present of New Orleans at unlikelystories.org/content/thir... . Thanks to Leona Strassberg Steiner for putting this exhibit together! #visualart #photography #neworleans #nola #litmag #smallpress
October 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Come meet Pat Jolly, artist and cultural icon, who brings thirteen photographs exploring the past and present of New Orleans at unlikelystories.org/content/thir... . Thanks to Leona Strassberg Steiner for putting this exhibit together! #visualart #photography #neworleans #nola #litmag #smallpress
We are running WAY behind on the development of "Love Has Been Liquidated: Book IV" by John Bryan. The CSS isn't as bad as I feared, but the image prep has been much more time-consuming than I anticipated. I don't want to give a new release date, but I'm working on it!
October 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We are running WAY behind on the development of "Love Has Been Liquidated: Book IV" by John Bryan. The CSS isn't as bad as I feared, but the image prep has been much more time-consuming than I anticipated. I don't want to give a new release date, but I'm working on it!
This could get gooey.
September 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This could get gooey.
OH MY GOD, IT'S A COVER DROP! Thanks so much to Bill Lavender of Lavender Ink / Diálogos for designing this wonderful cover for "A Limited Number of Miracles," my forthcoming book! It'll be out (relatively) soon, and will be almost as good as the cover!
September 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
OH MY GOD, IT'S A COVER DROP! Thanks so much to Bill Lavender of Lavender Ink / Diálogos for designing this wonderful cover for "A Limited Number of Miracles," my forthcoming book! It'll be out (relatively) soon, and will be almost as good as the cover!
We're working our butts off on the next two offerings from Unlikely Books! Coming up, the long-awaited Book IV of "Love Has Been Liquidated" by John Bryan, HOPEFULLY to be released October 1. "Love Has Been Liquidated" is a massive choose-your-own-adventure poem that will by playable free online.
August 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We're working our butts off on the next two offerings from Unlikely Books! Coming up, the long-awaited Book IV of "Love Has Been Liquidated" by John Bryan, HOPEFULLY to be released October 1. "Love Has Been Liquidated" is a massive choose-your-own-adventure poem that will by playable free online.
It’s Saturday night and the poetry is fine! Come celebrate the release of Marc Vincenz’s “Spells from the Wicked” (Unlikely Books) with Marc, Tara Campbell, Caroline Hagood, dan raphael, and the Mysterious Masked Poet! Please join us at 8pm Eastern! us02web.zoom.us/j/88557825955
August 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It’s Saturday night and the poetry is fine! Come celebrate the release of Marc Vincenz’s “Spells from the Wicked” (Unlikely Books) with Marc, Tara Campbell, Caroline Hagood, dan raphael, and the Mysterious Masked Poet! Please join us at 8pm Eastern! us02web.zoom.us/j/88557825955
SATURDAY! Come join Tara Campbell, Dan Raphael, Caroline Hagood, Marc Vincenz, and the Mysterious Masked Poet as they celebrate the release of Marc's "Spells from the Wicked," his latest tome from Unlikely Books! More information at www.facebook.com/events/71939...
August 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
SATURDAY! Come join Tara Campbell, Dan Raphael, Caroline Hagood, Marc Vincenz, and the Mysterious Masked Poet as they celebrate the release of Marc's "Spells from the Wicked," his latest tome from Unlikely Books! More information at www.facebook.com/events/71939...
It’s been too long since we’ve heard from South African editor Aryan Kaganof, but he’s back with a detailed and tactile analysis of a sculpture by Dominique Edwards and Nicola Deane at “Endling: decaymentation as poetics:” unlikelystories.org/content/endl... #sculpture #litmag #smallpress
July 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It’s been too long since we’ve heard from South African editor Aryan Kaganof, but he’s back with a detailed and tactile analysis of a sculpture by Dominique Edwards and Nicola Deane at “Endling: decaymentation as poetics:” unlikelystories.org/content/endl... #sculpture #litmag #smallpress
IN TWO WEEKS: the virtual book release party for "Spells for the Wicked" by Marc Vincenz! We'll celebrate the release of this tome with a reading by Marc and Tara Campbell, Caroline Hagood, dan raphael, and a special appearance by the Mysterious Masked Poet! More at www.facebook.com/events/71939...
July 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
IN TWO WEEKS: the virtual book release party for "Spells for the Wicked" by Marc Vincenz! We'll celebrate the release of this tome with a reading by Marc and Tara Campbell, Caroline Hagood, dan raphael, and a special appearance by the Mysterious Masked Poet! More at www.facebook.com/events/71939...
IN FOUR WEEKS! We're going to celebrate the release of "Spells for the Wicked" by Marc Vincenz (Unlikely Books, 2025)! Come join us on Zoom and hear poetry by Marc Vincenz, Tara Campbell, Caroline Hagood, and Dan Raphael! Join the FB event at www.facebook.com/events/71939...
July 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
IN FOUR WEEKS! We're going to celebrate the release of "Spells for the Wicked" by Marc Vincenz (Unlikely Books, 2025)! Come join us on Zoom and hear poetry by Marc Vincenz, Tara Campbell, Caroline Hagood, and Dan Raphael! Join the FB event at www.facebook.com/events/71939...
Our new gallery of visual art is by Carrie Beene! Carrie graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute, then lived in New York City and Haiti where she developed her sight and style. Check it all out at www.unlikelystories.org/content/nine... #visualart #litmag #smallpress
July 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Our new gallery of visual art is by Carrie Beene! Carrie graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute, then lived in New York City and Haiti where she developed her sight and style. Check it all out at www.unlikelystories.org/content/nine... #visualart #litmag #smallpress
Daniel Barbiero has written an exquisite review of "Here, Which Is Also a Place" by Mark DuCharme (Unlikely Books, 2022), comparing it to Heikki Huotari’s "Optimal or Not and Other Poems" (Buttonhook Press, 2024). Check it out at E ratio: www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/eratioeditio...
June 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Daniel Barbiero has written an exquisite review of "Here, Which Is Also a Place" by Mark DuCharme (Unlikely Books, 2022), comparing it to Heikki Huotari’s "Optimal or Not and Other Poems" (Buttonhook Press, 2024). Check it out at E ratio: www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/eratioeditio...
Received in the mail: "Mate," a novel on marriage as war, by Robert Castle, a.k.a. A Sardine on Vacation! If anyone would like to review it for Unlikely Stories Six, drop me a line!
June 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Received in the mail: "Mate," a novel on marriage as war, by Robert Castle, a.k.a. A Sardine on Vacation! If anyone would like to review it for Unlikely Stories Six, drop me a line!
Please welcome Titoxz, who brings his short story “Decay” on a childhood friendship that deteriorates into antipathy and despair at www.unlikelystories.org/content/decay
June 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Please welcome Titoxz, who brings his short story “Decay” on a childhood friendship that deteriorates into antipathy and despair at www.unlikelystories.org/content/decay