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Ann Plicque

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Ann Plicque spent most of her undergrad hours at LSU. She earned a bachelor’s in journalism from Northern Illinois University and worked as a newspaper copy editor for some years. Later she attended the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop in poetry and graduated with honors. Her first book, New Barrier Islands, was published this year.

 

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New Barrier Islands: Poems

This is a book about lives lived near and along the shores of South Louisiana and the land, water and humans there. These people and this place are parochial, yet universal, and remind us we are united on this blue marble, that, as the philosopher Gottfried Leibnitz said, “…is the best of all possible worlds.”