Saturday October 29th, 2011
Baton Rouge, LA
Dr. 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
