3 Muses, 2 Readers, 1 Mic
February 22 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Free
On February 22nd, I have the pleasure of presenting two amazing writers, Kayla Min Andrews and Mona Lisa Saloy. So please come out to Three Muses, 536 Frenchmen Street, on February 22nd, from 2-4 PM, and enjoy these amazing writers.
A brief Open Mic to start, followed by these two amazing features.
Please read below for some short bios. And please come to Three Muses and enjoy some amazing food, cocktails, and beautiful readings.
Kayla Min Andrews has been published in Lit Hub, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. In 2024, she assisted Putnam with the posthumous publication of her mother’s novel—The Fetishist, by Katherine Min—including editing the manuscript, writing the afterword, and promoting the novel. The Fetishist was named one of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024. Kayla is an MFA candidate in prose at the Randolph College low-residency program and is working on a novel and an essay collection.
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, is currently Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English, Dillard University. Books: Red Beans & Ricely Yours (has a banned poem, “The N Word”), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Second Line Home, on New Orleans Black Creole culture. Recent pubs: The Chicago Quarterly Review, Vol. 33; “Introduction” to Black Fire!!! This Time II; Southern Voices: fifty contemporary poets, (Tom Mack & Andrew Geyer eds.) Literary Press, Lamar University, Fall 2024. LMNL Poetry Anthology, fall 2024. Black Creole Chronicles: Poems (UNO Press 2023), choice for OBONO 2024 & Book of the Month, The Whitney Plantation Museum. Saloy was named the Louisianan of the year: 2024 in Louisiana Life Magazine. Mentioned in “Read your way through New Orleans,” by Maurice Carlos Ruffin¸NYT Book Review, 2024
