POEM OF THE DAY: Elizabeth Alexander's "At the Beach"
You may know Elizabeth Alexander as the poet who wrote and performed the poem "Praise Song for the Day" at Obama's 2009 inauguration. She...
TWO POEMS BY EVERETTE MADDOX
Y'all are in for a treat today. I would guess that many of you non-New Orleanians have never heard of the poet/wanderer/philosopher/eccen...
POEM OF THE DAY: Matt Rasmussen's "Phone"
I just finished Matt Rasmussen's superbly moving book of poems Black Aperture (Louisiana State University Press, 2013), which won the...
POEM OF THE DAY: Joy Harjo's "She Had Some Horses"
This week, I wanted to include a poem by Joy Harjo, "She Had Some Horses," from her book of the same name (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983;...
