The Festival of Words hosts a performance with poet Darrell Bourque who will read poetry from his new book “From the Other Side: Henriette Delille” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at Chicory’s Coffee and Café of Grand Coteau. Also featured will be Sister Theresa Sue Joseph who will discuss her path to joining the Sisters of the Holy Family.
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Guests are welcome to bring their own poems, songs or
stories for the open mic. This free, community event is suitable for all ages.
Bourque is professor emeritus in English (University of
Louisiana Lafayette) and former Louisiana Poet Laureate. His latest books
include “In Ordinary Light, Conversations in Verse” (with Jack B.
Bedell), “Where I Waited” and “Megan’s Guitar and Other Poems from
Acadie.” “From the Other Side: Henriette Delille” (Yellow Flag Press) is a
series of sonnets set to paintings by Shreveport abstract expressionist painter
Bill Gingles. It is a portrait of poems of Venerable Mother Henriette Delille
told from her disembodied voice from “the other side” telling of her life and
times as a social activist and spiritual leader and guide to the underserved
and underprivileged in 19th century New Orleans. Migrare, a
sequence of ghazals on the theme of immigration, will be released later this
year by UL Press at the Center of Louisiana Studies. Bourque is the recipient of
the 2019 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities 2019 Humanist of the Year
Award.
Joseph has lived a consecrated life for the past 50 years.
Born in Opelousas, and growing up on a farm, she was the eighth of 12 children. She attended Christ the King Elementary School in Bellevue and St.
Peter Claver High School in Grand Coteau, both run by the Sisters of the Holy Family.
After moving to Houston and becoming a member of Our Mercy of Mercy Catholic
Church, Sister Joseph entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy
Family. Having served God mostly in elementary education for more than 35 years,
she has worked in pastoral and prison ministries, serving as vocation director.
Presently, Sister Joseph is Secretary-General for her community.
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Louisiana Book News is written by award-winning author Chere Dastugue Coen, who writes Louisiana romances and mysteries under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Her first book in each series is FREE to download as an ebook, including "Emilie," book one of The Cajun Series, "Ticket to Paradise," book one of The Cajun Embassy series and "A Ghost of a Chance," the first Viola Valentine mystery.
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