Literature
Loujon Press
Loujon Press was an avant-garde publishing operation in 1960's New Orleans that was a pioneer of high-quality, independent publishing.
Loujon Press was an avant-garde publishing operation in 1960's New Orleans that was a pioneer of high-quality, independent publishing.
Lyle Saxon published articles, short stories, books of creative nonfiction, and one novel; he also directed the Louisiana branch of the Federal Writers Project.
Marcus Christian was a Louisiana writer, folklorist, and historian, known as the author of poems which satirize Jim Crow laws.
Natchitoches’s savory hand pies are filled with a mixture of ground pork and beef in a seasoned gravy.
Native American culture has influenced Louisiana for at least six thousand years. Today, Louisiana is home to four federally-recognized tribes: Chitimacha, Tunica-Biloxi, Coushatta, and the Jena Band of Choctaw.
From the time of colonial exploration to the present, Louisiana’s landscape has inspired a rich variety of nature writing.
New Orleans has been the subject of literature from the colonial period to the present day.
America’s first Black daily newspaper, the New Orleans Tribune served as an organizing tool for Black activists as they campaigned for rights for men of African descent with an emphasis on building solidarity with the formerly enslaved.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women’s book clubs became increasingly popular in New Orleans.
Paul Trévigne, a free man of color, was an editor, teacher, and orator who advocated for civil rights in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Louisiana poetry ranges from early francophone works to contemporary compositions.
A pioneer planter in what is now West Feliciana Parish, Rachel O'Connor wrote more than one hundred letters describing antebellum plantation life in southern Louisiana.
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