40. Part 1 of our
interview with
Mona Lisa Saloy, Author & Folklorist,
Educator, and Scholar. An award-winning author of
contemporary Creole culture in poems about Black New Orleans
before and after Katrina, as a Folklorist, Saloy documents
sidewalk songs, jump-rope rhymes, and clap-hand games to discuss
the importance of play. As a poet, her first book,
Red Beans & Ricely Yours, won
the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award
and tied for a third. She's written on the significance of the
Black Beat poets, on the African American Toasting Tradition, on
Black & Creole talk, on conditions and keeping Creole
after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and her new
book,
Second Line Home, is a
refreshing collection of poems that captures the day-to-day New
Orleans speech, contemplates family dynamics, celebrates New
Orleans, and all in a way everyday people can enjoy.
- This week in Louisiana history. Feb 22-23, 1895.
Largest snowfall recorded in Lake Charles - 22 inches.
- This week in Louisiana.
Cajun Country Mardi Gras
Downtown Eunice, 300 S. Second St.
Eunice, LA 70535
337-457-7389 | Fax: 337-457-2565
Five day celebration beginning the Friday before Mardi Gras Day.
Jam sessions, street dances, cooking demos, Mardi Gras Exhibits
and special Liberty Theatre show. Les Jeunes and Lil' Mardi Gras
runs for children on the Saturday and Sunday. Old time boucherie
on the Sunday. Mardi Gras Day activities include traditional
Courir de Mardi Gras and downtown daylong celebration - live
Cajun, Creole and Zydeco music and dancing,ff food, children's
walking parade and return of revelers.
