FIREWORKS, PANTALOONS, AND STRANGE DUELS
And now for some completely disparate events, united only by location (but come on: location is everything). From The Times-Picayune, May...
BAYOU BIKE RIDE
Over the weekend, my best-adventure-companion Lauren Gauthier and I took a bike ride from the bottom of the bayou to the top. That is,...
VOODOO ON THE BAYOU
Last night, I was lucky enough to attend the annual St. John's Eve voodoo head-washing ceremony, led by Sallie Ann Glassman's La Source...
BAYOU RAMBLINGS
"STATEMENT OF EVES LEGENDRE—WATCHMAN CHIEF FEBRUARY 21, 1938 Mr. Richards, Watchman John D. Thomas reported to me at his post #42 at...
WHAT THE BAYOU HAS TAUGHT ME SO FAR
What I've learned from my first week of research: enter research institution with a full stomach and an empty bladder; do not attempt to...
MEET: "THE BAYOU BOOK"
Over the course of the next two years, in time for the New Orleans Tricentennial in 2018, I will be writing a narrative history of the...
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;...
