I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramidsjump to
states
Louisiana
Established in 1942, the state poet laureate position in Louisiana is currently held by Jack Bedell. Bedell is the author of several books, including Bone Hollow, True: New and Selected Poems (Texas Review Press, 2013). He is also a professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University and the editor of Louisiana Literature.
upcoming events
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Nov 10 2018
The Louisiana Book festival is a free, single day festival held in the heart of downtown Baton Rouge in the Louisiana State Capitol, State Library of Louisiana, Capitol Park Museum, and tents on neighboring streets It features more than 250 authors and panelists discussing their books and more than 100 programs, includes the Young Readers Pavilion, where children and parents can enjoy storytelling and performances; Teen HQ, featuring bestselling and award winning young adult authors; live musical performances; cooking demos; and a wide variety of book-related activities and exhibitors. For more information visit http://www.louisianabookfestival.org/ 10:00am
701 N 4th Street
70802
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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recent & featured listings
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name | state |
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| Festival | Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival | Louisiana |
| Reading Series | RELIC: Readings in Literature and Culture | Louisiana |
| Writing Program | McNeese State University | Louisiana |
| Writing Program | Louisiana State University | Louisiana |
| Writing Program | Tulane University | Louisiana |
| Writing Program | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Louisiana |
| Writing Program | University of New Orleans | Louisiana |
| Writing Program | Xavier University of Louisiana | Louisiana |
| Conference | New Orleans Bookfair | Louisiana |
| Conference | Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans | Louisiana |
Louisiana poet laureate
Ava Leavell Haymon
Ava Leavell Haymon is the author of Eldest Daughter (Louisiana State University Press, 2013).
poems
poem
1994
poem
2016
1.
Dear Tom Dent,
We still love you
And what it means
To be a black college
President's son
Whose point of pride
And rebellion look
Like men in the 6th
& 7th Wards. You
And I knelt before
Them until they
Groaned. And ain't
That music too
poem
1900
The long, gray moss that softly swings In solemn grandeur from the trees, Like mournful funeral draperies,-- A brown-winged bird that never sings. A shallow, stagnant, inland sea, Where rank swamp grasses wave, and where A deadliness lurks in the air,-- A sere leaf falling silently. The death-like
