166. We interview poet Peter J. Cooley, Poet Laureate
of Louisiana. Peter is an English professor at Tulane
University, where he has taught for many years. Peter's
nine books of poetry are The Company of Strangers, The
Room Where Summer Ends, Nightseasons, The Van Gogh Notebook,
The Astonished Hours, Sacred Conversations, A Place Made of
Starlight, Divine Margins, and Night Bus to the
Afterlife. His poems have appeared in over seven
hundred magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic,
The Paris Review, The Nation, The New Republic, and The
Southern Review, and in more than one hundred
anthologies. His work is in three editions of The
Best American Poetry.
- This week in Louisiana history. July 24, 1704 The Pelican arrived bringing 23 girls to the Louisiana Colony (Mobile).
- This week in New Orleans history. July 23, 1930,
Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu was born. He served as a
Democratic Mayor (56th Mayor) of New Orleans from May 2,
1970 – May 1, 1978, a judge. a representative on the New
Orleans' Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of
Representatives (1960 to 1966) and on the New Orleans City
Council as a member at-large (1966 to 1970). On
September 24, 1979 he was appointed United States Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President Jimmy
Carter.
- This week in Louisiana.
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