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The Inside of Good Luck: A Night of New Orleans Poetry Hosted by Mona Lisa Saloy
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Fee:
Free.Location:
New Orleans Jazz MuseumDates & Times
Date:
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Time:
7:00 PM
Duration:
3 hours
Type of Event
Partner Program
Performance
Description
"We live on the inside of good luck the/ Right side of blessings" writes poet laureate of Louisiana, Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy in her poem "7th Ward Daily Fare: or Black Creole Talk." Come join us and the University of New Orleans Press as she hosts a night of poetry and toasts that will bless us all.
Featured poets include Sunni Patterson, Professor Arturo Pfister (featuring musical accompaniment by Michael Beauchamp, Willie Cole, and Kerry Lewis, Jr.) Quo Vadis Gex Breaux, Karisma Price, and Kalamu Salaam (featuring Bruce Sunpie Barnes). It is worth stopping everything for just one of these incredible writers, but to have them performing in the same room together will be a night to remember! Please see full bios below.
Free and open to the public, our event is cosponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of California-Berkeley, The Anthropology and Sociology Department at the University of New Orleans, the New Orleans Jazz Museum, the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, and Another Gulf is Possible. Artwork by Tyler Rosebush
BIOS
Mona Lisa Saloy, Ph.D., Louisiana Poet Laureate 2021-2023, is author, folklorist, educator, and scholar of Creole culture in articles, documentaries, and poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina, currently, Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard University. Her first book, Red Beans & Ricely Yours, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Her second, Second Line Home, celebrates New Orleans Black Creole culture. Recent publications include the Chicago Quarterly Review, Vol. 33, Anthology of Black American Literature HBCU Rising issue; Obsidian journal 2022, in the national anthology Black Fire This Time !!! and Persimmon Journal, 2023. Forthcoming is her new collection: Black Creole Chronicles: Poems. University of New Orleans Press, May 2023.
Mona Lisa Saloy, Ph.D., Louisiana Poet Laureate 2021-2023, is author, folklorist, educator, and scholar of Creole culture in articles, documentaries, and poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina, currently, Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard University. Her first book, Red Beans & Ricely Yours, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Her second, Second Line Home, celebrates New Orleans Black Creole culture. Recent publications include the Chicago Quarterly Review, Vol. 33, Anthology of Black American Literature HBCU Rising issue; Obsidian journal 2022, in the national anthology Black Fire This Time !!! and Persimmon Journal, 2023. Forthcoming is her new collection: Black Creole Chronicles: Poems. University of New Orleans Press, May 2023.
New Orleans Native and Visionary, Sunni Patterson, is an internationally acclaimed Poet, Performer, Workshop Facilitator, Certified Spiritual Life Coach/Consultant, and an Initiated Priestess and Minister. She currently serves as a Resident Artist for both the City of New Orleans' Claiborne Corridor Cultural Initiative and Junebug Productions. She also works as a Community Health Worker and Artist Influencer with Ashe Cultural Arts Center. Sunni is co-founder of the Environmental Arts and Public Health Organization, Breath is Lyfe, along with Scientist and Atmospheric Chemist, Cherelle Blazer, where they create programming and events that translate Science through Art, Culture, and Community Action. Sunni lives in New Orleans, Louisiana with her husband, three children, and dog.
Arthur Pfister aka Professor ARTURO, a poet and fiction writer from New Orleans, is a Spoken Word artist, educator, performer, editor and speechwriter. ARTURO, one of the original Broadside poets of the 1960s, has collaborated on a medley of projects with a mélange of artists including painters, musicians, photographers, dancers, singers, fire eaters, waiters, cab drivers, and other members of the Great Miscellaneous. His work has appeared in such diverse publications as FAHARI, the American Poetry Review, the Shooting Star Review, the Minnesota Review, the Gallery Mirror, EBONY, From a Bend in the River, Mesechabe, Word Up, the Chicory Review, the New Laurel Review, the New Orleans Tribune, The New York Quarterly, Chickenbones, We Speak As Liberators, Black Spirits, A Broadside Treasury, and Swapping Stories: Folktales From Louisiana. He is presently teaching at Norwalk Community College in CT. He recently published a volume of his work entitled MY NAME IS NEW ORLEANS: 40 Years of Poetry & Other Jazz (w/ jazzoetry CD) published by Dville Press, LLC. www.dvillepress,com and JAZZ STORIES published by Dville Press, LLC. A LOVE SUPREME was published in 2016 by the New York Quarterly Foundation, Inc.
Quo Vadis Gex Breaux, author, editor, grant writer, and cultural activist has published poetry, essays and creative non-fiction in a number of anthologies including Uncommonplace: An Anthology of Contemporary Louisiana Poets; Trouble the Waters: 250 Years of African-American Poetry; many issues of Nkumbo, the Journal of the Free Southern Theatre (FST) that later became Blkartsouth which evolved into the Congo Square Writers’ Union. Gex Breaux’s
work also appears in the Beat of the Forum-30th Anniversary Poetry Calendar 1971-2001; and Life Notes: Personal Writing by Contemporary Black Women, edited by Patricia Bell-Scott. A former Executive Director of the Center of Ethical Living and Social JusticeRenewal, Quo Vadis worked with volunteers dedicated to the recovery of New Orleans post hurricane Katrina. She now lives in Columbus, Georgia, post Hurricane Ida.
work also appears in the Beat of the Forum-30th Anniversary Poetry Calendar 1971-2001; and Life Notes: Personal Writing by Contemporary Black Women, edited by Patricia Bell-Scott. A former Executive Director of the Center of Ethical Living and Social JusticeRenewal, Quo Vadis worked with volunteers dedicated to the recovery of New Orleans post hurricane Katrina. She now lives in Columbus, Georgia, post Hurricane Ida.
Karisma Price is an assistant professor of English at Tulane University. A poet, screenwriter, and media artist, she is the author of I'm Always So Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023). Her work has appeared in publications including Poetry, Indiana Review, Oxford American, Four Way Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, and elsewhere. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, was a finalist for the 2019 Manchester Poetry Prize, and was awarded the 2020 J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation. A native New Orleanian, she holds an MFA in poetry from New York University, where she was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow.
Activist, educator, filmmaker, writer, editor and poet, Kalamu ya Salaam (born Vallery Ferdinand, III on 24 March 1947 in New Orleans) is the author of numerous books and pamphlets. His latest publications include PRECISE TENDERNESS-100 Haiku (Third World Press 2023),The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement (Third World Press 2016), New Orleans Griot—The Tom Dent Reader (University of New Orleans Press 2017, which also is the 2020 One Book-One New Orleans selection), and Be About Beauty (University of New Orleans Press 2018, which also is the 2019 Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Award).
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