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Poetry Night: Mary Emma Dutreix Pierson, "New Orleans, City of My Heart"

Event Type: Adults
Age Group(s): Adults
Date: 6/27/2017
Start Time: 7:00 PM
End Time: 8:30 PM
Description:
 Mary Emma Dutreix Pierson will read from and discuss her new book of poetry, New Orleans: City of My Heart, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, June 27, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

This event is free of charge and is open to the public.

New Orleans: City of My Heart consists of more than 40 poems composed by Pierson during the past decade. They are personal reflections, vignettes and poems by a life-long native, a love song to the city she loves.

Mary Emma Dutreix Pierson is a poet and retired speech and language pathologist. She holds a doctoral degree in education al assessment and has more than 30 years of teaching experience in the Orleans Parish School System. She obtained a bachelor’s of fine arts degree in performing arts (dance/drama) from Loyola University. During the course of her career, she has performed in more than 50 ballets and operatic ballets in the Greater New Orleans area. She has danced with the Loyola Ballet, the New Orleans Opera House Ballet, the NORD Ballet, and with the New Orleans Symphony.

Pierson also is active in the poetry community. She is a weekly reader at the Maple Leaf Bar open mic poetry series and has been a member of the New Orleans Haiku Society since its inception. She has chaired the spring poetry festival of the Louisiana Poetry Society for the past 20 years.

Library: East Bank Regional Library    Map
Location: Jefferson & Napoleon Rooms
Contact: Chris Smith
Contact Number: 504-889-8143
Presenter: Chris Smith