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Poets Laureate Of Louisiana
The Poet Laureate of Louisiana is the poet laureate for the U.S. state of Louisiana. Poets Laureate are selected by the governor for two years and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities manages the program. List of Poets Laureate * Emma Wilson Emery (1942–1970) * Ethel Green Russell (1970–1973) * Dr. George William Noel Cooper (1973–1976) * Henry Thomas Voltz (1976–1980) * Jean McGivney Boese (1980–1988) * Pinkie Gordon Lane (1988–1992) * Sylvia Davison Lott Buckley (1992–1996) * Jean McGivney Boese (1996–2004) * Brenda Marie Osbey (2005–2007) * Darrell Bourque (2007–2008; 2009–2011) * Julie Kane (2011–2013) * Ava Leavell Haymon (2013–2015) * Peter Cooley Peter Cooley (born November 19, 1940) is an American poet and Professor of English in the Department of English at Tulane University. He also directs Tulane's Creative Writing Program. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he holds degrees from Shimer Colle ... (2015–2017) * Jack Bedell (2017–2019) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poet Laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age, respectively in 1315 and 1342. In Britain, the term dates from the appointment of Bernard André by Henry VII of England. The royal office of Poet Laureate in England dates from the appointment of John Dryden in 1668. In modern times a poet laureate title may be conferred by an organization such as the Poetry Foundation, which designates a Young People's Poet Laureate, unconnected with the National Youth Poet Laureate and the United States Poet Laureate. The office is also popular with regional and community groups. Examples include the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate, which is designated by a "Presenting Partners" group from within the community, the Minnesota poet l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darrell Bourque
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Alison Pelegrin
Alison Pelegrin is an American poet, writer, and English lecturer. She is the author of several poetry collections, including ''Our Lady of Bewilderment'' (LSU 2022), ''Waterlines'' (LSU 2016), ''Hurricane Party'' (Akron 2011), and ''Big Muddy River of Stars'' (2007), which won the Akron Poetry Prize. In 2023, she was appointed the Poet Laureate of Louisiana, serving through 2025. Biography Alison Pelegrin was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the University of Arkansas. Pelegrin has taught English at Southeastern Louisiana University (SLU) for more than two decades. In 2023, she was appointed the Poet Laureate of Louisiana, serving through 2025. As of 2024, she is SLU's writer-in-residence. Her work has appeared in notable literary journals such as ''Poetry'', ''Ploughshares'', ''The Southern Review'', ''The Missouri Review'', and ''The Bennington Review''. Several of her poems are available as free printable broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Lisa Saloy
Mona Lisa Saloy is an American poet and folklorist. She is the Poet Laureate of Louisiana since 2021. Biography Mona Lisa Saloy was born in New Orleans and got her education in the University of Washington, where she graduated in 1979 with a BA in English. She then went to San Francisco State University and left with her MA in creative writing and English in 1982. She then went to Louisiana State University, which she left with a PhD in English and MFA in creative writing in 2005 and 1988. Saloy is the Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard University. Saloy's poetry appears in a number of publications, including ''Louisiana Folklore Miscellany'', ''The Southern Poetry Anthology'' and the ''Children's Folklore Review''. Her book ''Red Beans & Ricely Yours'' won the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize that was, for many years, awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Warner Smith
John Warner Smith (born December 22, 1952) is an American poet and educator. He formerly held the position as the Louisiana Poet Laureate. His poems have appeared in numerous published works. Life, education, and career Smith is a native of Morgan City, Louisiana. He grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and received his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of New Orleans. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a B.S. in accounting and a B.S. in psychology from McNeese State University. Smith teaches English at Southern University in Baton Rouge, where he resides. He studied with instructors and poets Terrance Hayes and Tracy K. Smith. He is also the chief executive officer of Education's Next Horizon, a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to PreK-12 education reform in Louisiana. Prior to joining Education's Next Horizon, Smith worked as a banker for Chase. He also served as Secretary of Labor in the adminis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Bedell
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Peter Cooley
Peter Cooley (born November 19, 1940) is an American poet and Professor of English in the Department of English at Tulane University. He also directs Tulane's Creative Writing Program. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he holds degrees from Shimer College, the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa. He is the father of poet Nicole Cooley. Career Prior to joining Tulane, Cooley taught at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He was the Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 1981. Poetry and awards Cooley has published several books of poetry with the Carnegie Mellon University Press Carnegie Mellon University Press is a publisher that is part of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The press specializes in literary publishing, in particular, poetry. It is headquar .... He received the Inspirational Professor Award in 2001 and the Newcomb Professor of the Year Award in 2003. On August 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ava Leavell Haymon
Ava Leavell Haymon was the 2013–2015 Poet Laureate of Louisiana. Career She is the author of four collections of poetry, includinEldest Daughter an The Strict Economy of Fire along with five chapbooks. She is the editor of the forthcoming , Barataria Poetry Series (Spring 2014) and has been awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Kane
:''Disambiguation: for the character voiced by Kate Micucci see Motorcity#Protagonists.'' Julie Kane (born July 20, 1952 in Boston) is a contemporary American poet, scholar, and editor and was the Louisiana Poet Laureate for the 2011–2013 term. Although born in Massachusetts, Kane has lived in Louisiana for over three decades and writes about the region with the doubled consciousness of a non-native. Her work shows the influence of the Confessional poets; indeed, she was a student in Anne Sexton's graduate poetry seminar at Boston University at the time of Sexton's suicide. She is also associated with the New Formalist movement in contemporary poetry, although she has published free verse as well as formal verse. Her formal poems tend to bend the "rules" of poetic forms and employ slant rhyme. Life Kane grew up in Massachusetts, upstate New York, and Montclair, New Jersey, where she graduated from Montclair High School in 1970. Her father, Edwin Julian Kane, was a radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Marie Osbey
Brenda Marie Osbey (born December 12, 1957 in New Orleans) is an American poet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Louisiana from 2005 to 2007. Life She graduated from Dillard University, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, and from the University of Kentucky, with an M.A. She has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, Loyola University New Orleans, and at Dillard University. She was Visiting Writer-in-residence at Tulane University and Scholar-in-residence at Southern University. She teaches at Louisiana State University. Her work has appeared in ''Callaloo'', ''Obsidian'', ''Essence'', ''Southern Exposure'', ''Southern Review'', ''Epoch'', ''The American Voice'', and ''The American Poetry Review''. Awards * 2004 Carmargo Foundation Fellow * 1998 American Book Award * 1990 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship * 1984 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Poetry Award * 1980 Loring-Williams Prize, Academy of American Poets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties (the other being Alaska and its boroughs). The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans, with a population of roughly 383,000 people. Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by a mixture of 18th century Louisiana French, Dominican Creole, Spanish, French Canadian, Acadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Davison Lott Buckley
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