This project will collect various materials like poems, short stories, essays, and articles from people who live in or around the area. You can be a Louisiana based writer, the pieces can be set in Louisiana, or about Louisiana politics, memories from when younger, about Mardi Gras, about Katrina, about the aftermath and rebuilding even if not in the close proximity, about your hometown, articles on the gas economics of the Gulf, about Barksdale Air Force Base, about Fort Polk, about Civil War, ... more »

This project will collect various materials like poems, short stories, essays, and articles from people who live in or around the area. You can be a Louisiana based writer, the pieces can be set in Louisiana, or about Louisiana politics, memories from when younger, about Mardi Gras, about Katrina, about the aftermath and rebuilding even if not in the close proximity, about your hometown, articles on the gas economics of the Gulf, about Barksdale Air Force Base, about Fort Polk, about Civil War, about being bored as hell, about football, etc. This is a place where hopefully all the pieces will form together to give the rest of the world a true glimpse into the lives, art, and conditions of the people who live here.  Less