Red Beans and Ricely YoursDr. Mona Lisa Saloy is Professor of English and founder of the Creative Writing Program at Dillard University. Saloy’s new verse appears in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IV: Louisiana, 12/2011; the Pan African Literary Journal, Fall 2010. Her essay, “Disasters, Nature, and Poetry” is in Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, University of Georgia Press. Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize in poetry.
SCHEDULE
9 AM – 9:45 AM
House Committee Room 1
Reading
Louisiana's Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Voices: A Poetry Panel
Book Signing
11:15 AM - NOON
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Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy
Author, Folklorist
Professor of English
Humanities Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Dillard University
2601 Gentilly Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70122-3097
Cell: 504-343-0689
Office: 504-816-4354
FAX: 504-816-4381
"Every person in the world is born to do something unique and something distinctive. And if he or she does not do it, it will never be done."
----Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays (1884-1984), Scholar & President, Morehouse College
www.monalisaslaoy.com
saloy1@aol.com
msaloy@dillard.edu
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