

to noon CST on the Facebook event page, which can be found at Spoken Word Workshop with JK Lawson. Lawson, an internationally known visual artist and poet with strong ties to New Orleans, who will teach a free workshop on spoken word poetry on Saturday (March 6) from 10 a.m. The Shreveport Regional Arts Council is hosting artist-in-residence J. Closer to home, she faces the death of her father and her own aging.įor more about the author and “Wild Juice,” see. In “Wild Juice,” she confronts global and personal change, with subjects from the extinction of a prehuman species to present-day reduction in sea life due to the climate crisis. I’ve been a fan of Havird’s writing since buying a book of her poetry at Agora Borealis on Lake Street several years ago and am excited about her newest collection. CST, followed by a Q&A at the Facebook event page which can be found at LSU Press Remote Author Series with Ashley Mace Havird. The official LSU Press free launch of “Wild Juice” is at 2 p.m. CST on Saturday (March 6) at the Facebook book event page which can be found at The Poetry Buffet presents Grace Bauer, Ashley Mace Havird, Kay Murphy & Cody Smith. Havird will also read from her new work, along with poets Grace Bauer, Kay Murphy and Cody Smith, in a “Poetry Buffet” from 2 to 3:30 p.m. CST Friday (March 5), sponsored by the Red River Poetry Society of Centenary College on their Facebook event page which can be found at Wild Juice Poetry Reading by Ashley Mace Havird . There are stories of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more intense for time missed, and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to embrace brothers, sisters, and cousins.The public is invited to Havird’s online reading at 6:30 p.m.

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