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Bessie Senette

Home Featured Authors & Panelists Featured Participant Lineup 2026 Bessie Senette

Bessie Senette is the self-published author of Cutting the Clouds: A Bayou Mystic’s Poems, Musings, and Imaginings. Her poems have been published in the online poetry magazine MockingHeart Review and Diving Into Nature by Portals Press. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Award for her poem, “A Creation Story.” Her eco-poetry collection, Louisiana Pines, is soon to be published, the title poem of which appears in Diving Into Nature.

 

 

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Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

A collection of 70 nature-based poems, several by Louisiana State Poet Laureates, focused on the wondrous but endangered environment of Louisiana.