Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy and Olivia Clare Friedman will learn and talk about their work at LSU Artistic Writing’s Delta Mouth Studying Sequence at 6 p.m. Friday.
The occasion will happen within the Grand Salon of the French Home at LSU and is free and open to the general public.
Each Saloy and Fried are acclaimed authors with deep roots in Louisiana. Saloy is the present poet laureate of Louisiana, and Friedman is a novelist and poet.
“I feel the occasion can be of nice curiosity to LSU and the bigger Baton Rouge group,” says Professor Zack Godshall of LSU’s English Division. “Each Dr. Saloy and Ms. Friedman write poems and tales that discover and have a good time the fragility and resiliency in South Louisiana’s tradition and surroundings.
Saloy is an award-winning writer, folklorist, educator and scholar. A lot of her work celebrates New Orleans Black Creole tradition. Her first ebook of poetry, “Purple Beans and Ricely Yours,” gained the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Her second ebook, “Second Line House,” captures the solemn grief, ongoing battle and joyous processions of New Orleans after the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. Saloy holds each a Ph.D. in literature and an MFA in artistic writing from LSU. She lives in her hometown, New Orleans, the place she is the Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard College.
Friedman wrote the extremely praised novel “Right here Lies,” a visceral and portentous take a look at mourning, reminiscence and motherhood in a future Louisiana ravaged by local weather change. Friedman can be the writer of the ebook of brief tales, “Disasters within the First World,” and a ebook of poems, “The 26-Hour Day.” Raised in Baton Rouge, she teaches artistic writing on the College of Southern Mississippi, the place she holds the title of Nina Bell Suggs Endowed Professor.
This occasion is the second installment of the brand new Delta Mouth Studying Sequence, an extension of the student-run Delta Mouth Literary Competition, set for April 21-23. The collection’ first occasion was held in October and featured New Orleans writer E.M. Tran and Dr. James Nguyen H. Spencer, vice provost and dean of the LSU Graduate Faculty.
The occasion is co-sponsored by LSU’s Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors Faculty, Girls’s, Gender, and Sexuality Research program, and African and African American Research program.