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“Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at 20: Poets Remember” with Creative Assembly Resident Andy Young and Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023) Mona Lisa Saloy
Tue, November 18th at 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Join NOMA Creative Assembly resident Andy Young and former Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy for a conversation about poetry and art in connection with the new anthology Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: An Anthology of Louisiana Poetry with Art. This program commemorates Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and celebrates the new anthology edited by Louisiana Poets Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy and John Warner Smith. Dr. Saloy will be featured along with contributing poet Andy Young, who is a member of the 2025 NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort.
This conversation will be followed by a book signing where guests can purchase copies of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: An Anthology of Louisiana Poetry with Art and have them signed.
This program is free and open to the public. Advance registration is recommended.
About Andy Young
Andy Young‘s second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press (2025). She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014) and four chapbooks. She grew up in West Virginia and has lived most of her adult life in New Orleans, where she teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared in Prairie Schooner and Blue Mountain Review, and her short film, “Pharmacy Museum Tour Guide, New Orleans” was recently screened at New Orleans Film Festival, the Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Festival, and has won awards from the Berlin Indie Film Awards, London Women Film Festival and others. She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers.
About Mona Lisa Saloy
Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023) Mona Lisa Saloy
Mona Lisa Saloy, Ph.D., Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023), is an author, folklorist, Louisiana Folklife Commissioner, educator, and scholar of Creole culture in articles, documentaries, and poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina. Saloy is currently Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English, Dillard University. Mona Lisa Saloy writes for those who don’t or can’t tell Black Creole cultural stories. Learn more at www.monalisasaloy.com
About Creative Assembly
Launched in 2021, NOMA’s Creative Assembly residency promotes community engagement by welcoming artists to collaborate throughout the year with the museum’s permanent collection, special exhibitions, and programs. Creative Assembly Cohort members are provided funds and museum support to develop artistic projects and public offerings, like programs and workshops.
Learn more at noma.org/learn/creative-assembly/.