A Conversation Between Louisiana Poet Laureates: Mona Lisa Saloy and John Warner Smith

Submitted by Michelle Cavalier on Sat, 10/30/2021 - 1:54am

Current Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy, speaks with John Warner Smith, Louisiana Poet Laureate 2019-2021, about his tenure as poet laureate and her planned initiatives during her appointment.

Books:

Red Beans and Ricely Yours (Paperback)

By Mona Lisa Saloy

$16.75

ISBN: 9781887160018

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Published: Black Bayou Press - October 1st, 2021

Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems (Paperback)

By Mona Lisa Saloy

$16.75

ISBN: 9781887160025

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Published: Black Bayou Press - October 1st, 2021

Our Shut Eyes (Paperback)

By John Warner Smith

$21.95

ISBN: 9781952335112

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Published: MadHat Press - April 1st, 2021

These poems are powerful in their dynamism, in their rhythm and flow. But their impact is manifest most in the combination of their immediacy and historical depth. The soul-crushing frustration of watching the police murder Alton Sterling is juxtaposed against Douglass’s vision of slavery, or McKay’s Harlem Renaissance, or Baraka’s Black Arts Movement.

Spirits of the Gods: Poems (Paperback)

By John Warner Smith, Dennis Paul Williams

$24.95

ISBN: 9781946160010

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Published: University of Louisiana - November 1st, 2017

Soul Be a Witness (Paperback)

By John Warner Smith

$22.74

ISBN: 9781941196267

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Published: Madhat, Inc. - March 11th, 2016

A Mandala of Hands (Paperback)

By John Warner Smith

$17.00

ISBN: 9780692415313

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Published: Aldrich Press - April 21st, 2015

In A Mandala of Hands, John Warner Smith crafts poems of patient and painstaking wisdom, poems that lead the reader deliberately into an array of vantages, laboring hard to leaven inquiry with insight. At the heart of this book's mosaic approach beats a steady quest for recovery and repair.