New Orleans

There Are No Survivors Without Scars

by Jeri Hilt
August 26, 2015 at 3:49pm
A New Orleans poet reflects on the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina: Since the storm, I have become a watcher of birds. It started as fascination speckled with jealousy. Birds make flight look easy.

New Orleans Literary Journal "Mixed Company" Collects Black Perspectives on Art and Fiction

by Soleil Ho
July 8, 2015 at 9:51am
Many writers have tried to put words to the New Orleans experience. Read more »

New Book "Orleans" Imagines a World Where Blood Type Matters More than Race

by Victoria Law
April 23, 2013 at 3:56pm
“After the storm deaths came other casualties: deaths by debris, cuts, tetanus, or loss of blood; suicide, heart attacks caused by stress or loss, or stress of rebuilding, or just as often from the lack of medicines used to treat common ailments. The list of no-longer-treatable diseases grew:... Read more »