{"id":2758,"date":"2022-04-17T14:02:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T19:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2022-04-17T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T19:02:04","slug":"la-poet-laureate-mona-lisa-saloy-to-address-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"LA Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy to address Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled that Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy will be the featured speaker at our Annual Meeting May 24.\u00a0 The event will be held at L&#8221;Union Francaise, 4522 Prytania Street in New Orleans.\u00a0 The award-winning author, folklorist, educator and scholar has been known and beloved for her work about Black Creole culture. Saloy has documented Creole culture in sidewalk songs, jump-rope rhymes and clap-hand games to discuss the importance of play. Her first book, \u201cRed Beans &amp; Ricely Yours,\u201d won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN\/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Her collection of poems, \u201cSecond Line Home,\u201d captures day-to-day New Orleans speech, family dynamics and gives insight into the unique culture that the world loves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2759\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mona-Lisa-Saloy-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mona-Lisa-Saloy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mona-Lisa-Saloy-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mona-Lisa-Saloy-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mona-Lisa-Saloy-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mona-Lisa-Saloy-2048x1356.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2760\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NEH-Preferred-SealBlk820693879291-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NEH-Preferred-SealBlk820693879291-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NEH-Preferred-SealBlk820693879291.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2761\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/LEH20_RGB_Logo_Primary_Black738364111-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/LEH20_RGB_Logo_Primary_Black738364111-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/LEH20_RGB_Logo_Primary_Black738364111-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/LEH20_RGB_Logo_Primary_Black738364111-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/LEH20_RGB_Logo_Primary_Black738364111-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/LEH20_RGB_Logo_Primary_Black738364111.jpg 1501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled that Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy will be the featured speaker at our Annual Meeting May 24.\u00a0 The event will be held at L&#8221;Union Francaise, 4522 Prytania Street in New Orleans.\u00a0 The award-winning author, folklorist, educator and scholar has been known and beloved for her work about Black Creole culture. Saloy &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2758\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-editor","4":"post-2758","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}