Three Louisiana women poets will read their poetry at the Bayou Teche Museum (131 E Main St., New Iberia) on Sun., Sept. 20, at 2p.m. This Poetry Reading is free and open to the public.
The Poets:
Elizabeth Burk is a psychologist, a native New Yorker who divides her time between New York and a home and husband in southwest Louisiana. She is the author of Unmoored (Texas Review Press, 2024) and has three previous poetry collections: Learning to Love Louisiana, Louisiana Purchase, and Duet-Poet & Photographer. A new edition of Learning to Love Louisiana combining two previous chapbooks is forthcoming. Her poems, prose pieces, and reviews have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently working on a new poetry collection on the subject of “too many birthdays.”
Ava Leavell Haymon is a poet, playwright, and editor. Her poems have been published widely and in four collections from LSU Press, the last being ELDEST DAUGHTER, poems in which she wrestles with her life as the daughter of a Baptist preacher. An amateur singer and pianist, she has tried to learn to play the mandolin and failed.
Margaret Simon lives on the Bayou Teche in New Iberia, Louisiana. Margaret retired from a career in elementary education. Margaret’s books include Bayou Song: Creative Explorations of the South Louisiana Landscape and Were You There: A Biography of Emma Wakefield Paillet, co-authored with Dr. Phebe Hayes. Margaret’s first baby board book What’s That Sound? Birds of the Bayou takes a young child on an adventure learning the sounds of birds. Margaret’s poems have appeared in anthologies including The Poetry of US by National Geographic. Margaret writes a blog regularly at http://reflectionsontheteche.com.
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