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Poetry Event! Carolyn Hembree Presents Three New Poets

Event Type: Adults
Age Group(s): Adults
Date: 1/23/2020
Start Time: 7:00 PM
End Time: 8:30 PM
Description:
 Local poet and educator Carolyn Hembree will present three young poets who will read from their work at 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 23, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

This event is free of charge and is open to the public. There is no registration.

Chanel Clarke received her MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers. Her poems have appeared in Flag and Void, Hayden Ferry’s Review, Bayou, Anti-, and other journals. She is a graduate of Tulane University's School of Social Work where I earned a certificate in Family Practice. I am most interested in working with children and adolescents, but and has particular interests in working with low-income families, the homeless, and marginalized LGBTQIA people. I am also a poet and a writer. She says her identity as a writer is not separate from her identity as a budding social worker. Both poetry and social justice work require empathy, mindfulness, and the desire to be connected to others.

Winner of the 2018 Iowa Review Award in poetry, Shaina Monet is a Pushcart-nominated poet, a 2018 Best of the Net nominee, and a former poetry editor at Bayou Magazine. She completed a BA in French and a BA in English at the University of New Orleans in 2013, and her MFA from the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop in 2018. She hopes to complete her first full-length poetry collection, learn several more languages, make progress on her historical fiction novel set in 18th and 19th century New Orleans, and pursue a PhD in language and literature. Her work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Yemassee Journal, and The Iowa Review.

Chioma Urama’s poetry and fiction has been published in the Southern Humanities Review, Pleiades, Blackbird, Paper Darts, The Normal School, and Prairie Schooner. She received the 2015 Fred Shaw Fiction Prize and an honorable mention in the 2017 Lindenwood Review Lyric Essay Contest. Urama is a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship alumna and a graduate of the University of Miami MFA program, where she was a Michener Fellow. She has taught creative writing and English composition at UNO since 2018.

Carolyn Hembree’s debut poetry collection, Skinny, was published in 2012, and her second collection, Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, won the 2015 Trio Award and the 2015 Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, The Journal, Poetry Daily, and other publications. Her work appears in the 2015-2016 edition of The Double Dealer, the Faulkner Society’s on-line journal. She has received grants and fellowships from PEN, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation. An assistant professor at the University of New Orleans, Hembree teaches writing and serves as poetry editor of Bayou Magazine.

For more information regarding this event, contact Chris Smith, Manager of Adult Programming for the library, at 504-889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us.

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