Summer 2024
Poetry by Julie Kane
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin
Articles
Summer 2023
Poetry by Chuck Perkins
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy
Winter 2021
Mona Lisa Saloy
Louisiana’s new poet laureate writes about and for Black Creoles of New Orleans
A Reading from Mona Lisa Saloy
The new Louisiana Poet Laureate presents her first public reading in the position
Winter 2020
A Request for Removal
Poetry by Donney Rose, selected by John Warner Smith
Summer 2020
Emma Wilson Emery
Louisiana’s first poet laureate was female—and vehemently anti-war
Winter 2019
All Black Boys Look Alike
Work by the new Poet Laureate of Louisiana
Spring 2019
Poetry by Darrell Bourque
Poetry by the 2019 Humanist of the Year.
Winter 2018
From the series “Portraits of Our Father Drinking”
Portrait #1: An Early Start