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Books by Mona Lisa Saloy
Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems
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Mona Lisa Saloy Bio
Winner of the PEN
Oakland National Literary Award
Updated Bio
Mona Lisa Saloy, Author and Folklorist, was visiting
Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle for
the 2005-06 year; for 2006-07 academic year. Because of Katrina, she
was on leave from Dillard University where she developed their
Creative Writing Program.
Her Ph.D. is in English from Louisiana State University in
Baton Rouge where she received the MFA in Creative Writing. Mona Lisa’s first
collection of verse, Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems, won the T. S.
Eliot Prize in poetry for 2005, published by Truman State University Press;
also, this collection was finalist for the Morgan Prize from StoryLine Press.
Dr. Saloy’s verse appears in the anthology:
Furious Flower: African American
Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present. Joanne V. Gabbin,
editor. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Occasionally,
Mona Lisa writes and reads commentaries on the Black historical 7th Ward
neighborhood in New Orleans for Public Radio, WWNO, 89.9 fm. Some of Saloy’s
articles on Toasts, and the Lore of African American children are available on
the Web at the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Folklife site.
Saloy won fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and from the United Negro College Fund/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to
continue her research on Black Beat poet Bob Kaufman, who served as an important
link to the Black arts movement. Her article “Black Beats and Black Issues,”
appears in Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965. Lisa Phillips,
editor. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995.
Mona Lisa Saloy was Keynote Speaker at Re-Building New
Orleans Conference at Tulane University; Writer in Residence at the Arna
Bontemps Museum in Alexandria, Louisiana; and guest writer at University of
Missouri in 2005; since then, she was featured writer at the Zora Neale
Hurston Festival, at Santa Barbara Community College, and DeBose Festival
featured writer in 2006.
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An Extended Bio
Ms Saloy won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities
and from the United Negro College Fund/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to
continue her research on Black Beat poet Bob Kaufman, who served as an important
link to the Black arts movement. She received the M.F.A. at Louisiana Sate
University in Baton Rouge, the M.A. in Creative Writing at San Francisco State
University, and the B.A. at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Mona Lisa Saloy’s most recent publication of prose is in "A
Night in St. Tammany Parish," Callaloo.
24.1(2001)162-163. Her scholarship on the Beats appears in "Black Beats and
Black Issues,"
Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965.
Lisa Phillips, ed. NY: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995.153-165. Her
recent ethnographic articles are "Still Laughing to Keep from Crying: Black
Humor," Louisiana Folklife Festival Guide. Monroe
& Baton Rouge: Louisiana Division of Folklife, 2001. 14-15; and
"New Orleans Lagniappe: Terms of our Endearment," Ties that
Bind: Making Family New Orleans Style. New Orleans: Ashé Cultural
Center and Ebon Images, 2001.53-59. She is included in
My Mother
Had a Dream, African-American Women Share Their Mother’s Words of Wisdom.
Tamara Nikuradse, ed. New York: Dutton, the Penguin Group, 1996.
Ms Saloy’s verse appears most recently in "Word Works"
a film by Betsy Weiss, part of Poets in the Dream State: An Anthology of
Louisiana Writers, NOVAC 2001. Louisiana English Journal,
1(7)2000; Cultural Vistas 11.2(2000)83; Louisiana
Literature, 1999; Double Dealer Redux 1998; Ishmael
Reed’s Konch,1997.
Some of Mona Lisa Saloy's poems appear in
Immortelles, Poems
of Life and Death by New Southern Writers, New Orleans: Xavier
Review Press, 1995, and in 1994 The Southern Review. She is
featured in The American Poetry Archives’ Color: A Sampling of
Contemporary African American Writers, 1994. Others include Louisiana
English Journal, 1994; African American Review,
1993. She is in the seminal
Louisiana Women Writers, New Essays and a
Comprehensive Bibliography, edited by Brown and Ewell, from LSU
Press, 1992. Ms. Saloy's previously published poems appear in the following: Word
Up, Black Poetry of the 80s from the Deep South, The Black Scholar, The Haight
Ashberry Literary Journal, Dark Waters, Testimony,
Louisiana Laurels,
and others.
Previous awards are the 1993 Delta Sigma Theta's ARTIE, and the 1989
"Arts Excellence Award" in literature; in 1984, a National Endowment
for the Arts supported post as Poet-in-Residence at the San Francisco African
American Historical and Cultural Society. Mona Lisa Saloy was a
Poet-in-the-Schools in Washington State, California, and Louisiana where she
developed the successful Arts in Education program for the Arts Council of
Greater Baton Rouge. In addition, she has collected and published folklore
research on kids' lore and adult male lore in Louisiana and Michigan. Mona
Lisa Saloy is on the Advisory Board of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans
Literary Festival.
Mona Lisa says that she writes to speak for those who don't, to learn their
lessons, and to celebrate their spirits.
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Mona
Lisa Saloy is associate professor of English and Founding Director of
Creative Writing at Dillard University, and Director of The
Daniel C. Thompson/Samuel Du Bois Honors Program. Dr.
Saloy's first collection of verse,
Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize
in poetry for 2005, published by Truman State University Press. She
has also won fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and from the United Negro College Fund/Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. Her poems have appeared in anthologies,
magazines, journals, and film. She received her PhD in English
and MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University and
her MA in creative writing and English from San Francisco State
University. Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Saloy
was a
visiting associate professor of English and creative writing at
the University of Washington for the 2005/2006 academic
year.
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The Last Holiday: A Memoir
By Gil Scott Heron
Shortly after we republished The Vulture and The Nigger Factory, Gil started to tell me about The Last Holiday, an account he was writing of a multi-city tour that he ended up doing with Stevie Wonder in late 1980 and early 1981. Originally Bob Marley was meant to be playing the tour that Stevie Wonder had conceived as a way of trying to force legislation to make Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday. At the time, Marley was dying of cancer, so Gil was asked to do the first six dates. He ended up doing all 41. And Dr King's birthday ended up becoming a national holiday ("The Last Holiday because America can't afford to have another national holiday"), but Gil always felt that Stevie never got the recognition he deserved and that his story needed to be told. The first chapters of this book were given to me in New York when Gil was living in the Chelsea Hotel. Among the pages was a chapter called Deadline that recounts the night they played Oakland, California, 8 December; it was also the night that John Lennon was murdered. Gil uses Lennon's violent end as a brilliant parallel to Dr King's assassination and as a biting commentary on the constraints that sometimes lead to newspapers getting things wrong. —Jamie Byng, Guardian / Gil_reads_"Deadline" (audio) |
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And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
By Charles J. Shields
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011—A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011—The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature. In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A most respectful demurring by me for the excellent writer Charles J. Shields, who offered to be my biographer"). Unwilling to take no for an answer, propelled by a passion for his subject, and already deep into his research, Shields wrote again and this time, to his delight, the answer came back: "O.K." For the next year—a year that ended up being Vonnegut's last—Shields had access to Vonnegut and his letters. And So It Goes is the culmination of five years of research and writing—the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut resonates with readers of all generations from the baby boomers who grew up with him to high-school and college students who are discovering his work for the first time. Vonnegut's concise collection of personal essays, Man Without a Country, published in 2006, spent fifteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold more than 300,000 copies to date. The twenty-first century has seen interest in and scholarship about Vonnegut's works grow even stronger, and this is the first book to examine in full the life of one of the most influential iconoclasts of his time. Slaughterhouse Five |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
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