Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023), Mona Lisa Saloy, PhD, is currently Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard University. Her first book, Red Beans & Ricely Yours, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Her second, Second Line Home, celebrates New Orleans Black Creole culture. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Quarterly Review; Black Fire This Time; Tribes; and in Persimmon Journal. Her new collection, Black Creole Chronicles: Poems, was the One Book One New Orleans selection for 2024. 

Schedule

9:00 am to 10:00 am

State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room

Appetizers for the Poetry Buffet

with Anne Babson, Stacey Balkun, Gina Ferrara, Kelly Harris-DeBerry, Julie Kane, Daniel W.K. Lee, Monica Mankin, Benjamin Morris, Geoff Munsterman, Kay Murphy, Biljana D. Obradović, Melinda Palacio, Jonathan Penton, Valentine Pierce, Mona Lisa Saloy, and Sandra Sarr

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E

Thriving Against the Odds: Personal Stories of Race, Identity, and Community

with Ronald M. Gauthier, Press L. Robinson Sr., and moderator Mona Lisa Saloy

3:15 pm to 4:00 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

The Poetry Buffet: An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry