November 25, 2024November 25, 2024Uncategorized Captive State The Historic New Orleans Collection has an incredible exhibit running now through January 19, 2005: Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of […]
October 31, 2024Uncategorized To the Poets of Raymond Laborde CC I’ll begin with this–in the town of Cottonport, Louisiana, I saw sugarcane for miles. There are two prisons here–Raymond Laborde Correctional Center, […]
October 9, 2024October 9, 2024Uncategorized Make It Count There are a lot of ways to mark the passing of time in a prison. I keep time on my watch–not my […]
September 24, 2024September 24, 2024Uncategorized Eternal Travelers Eternal Travelers Basho–the famed Japanese haiku master and ‘eternal traveler’ lived in Japan from 1644-1694. His poems are known worldwide thanks […]
September 12, 2024October 9, 2024Uncategorized Visiting the Poetry Group at Louisiana State Prison When I was invited to speak to the poetry group at Louisiana State Prison (it’s known as Angola, and sits on 18,000 […]
July 16, 2024July 29, 2024Uncategorized Poetry in Louisiana Prisons and Communities I was deeply honored to be named Louisiana Poet Laureate for 2023-2025, despite a troubling question for which I had no answer: […]