BREAK FREE … and share words with us. Join us for an evening of enlightenment when Louisiana poets Bessie Senette and Clare L. Martin and Austin poet Robert Okaji share their work.
Louisiana native Bessie Senette has published her first book, Cutting the Clouds, a Bayou Mystic’s Poems, Musings, and Imaginings. Currently, she is finalizing Louisiana Pines, a chapbook manuscript. Senette is an author, healer, public speaker, and ordained interfaith minister. In September of 2018, she served as Artistic Director and featured performer of a multi-disciplined arts event celebrating the Sufi poet Rumi. Senette lives in Lafayette, Louisiana with her husband of 35 years. She has two sons, two daughters-in-law, four grand-pups and one cantankerous grand-cat.
Clare L. Martin’s third book of poetry, Crone, is due from Nixes Mate Books in 2018. Her second collection of poetry, Seek the Holy Dark, was the 2017 selection for The Louisiana Series of Cajun and Creole Poetry from Yellow Flag Press. Her widely-acclaimed debut, Eating the Heart First, was published in 2012 by Press 53. She founded and edits the online poetry magazine, MockingHeart Review. Martin lives in Louisiana with her husband and daughter.
