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    Date:   3/15/99
      Contact:                             Christina Chapple   46

LA LIT POETRY EDITION FEATURES NICHOLLS AUTHOR
  HAMMOND -- A new poetry chapbook published by Southeastern Louisiana University's
Louisiana Literature Press will feature the works of Nicholls State University
novelist-in-residence
Albert Belisle Davis.
  Louisiana Literature editor Jack Bedell said the poetry pamphlet, Virgnia Patout's Parish, is the
second edition in a chapbook series launched last year by Louisiana Literature, Southeastern's
award-
winning literary journal. The series debuted with The Door Between Us, an edition featuring
Darrell
Dourque, a nationally-recognized poet who also is professor of English and Humanities at the
University
of Southwestern Louisiana.
  Cover art for Virginia Patout's Parish has been contributed by Southeastern Visual Arts
Department faculty member Brian Kelly of Baton Rouge, while Joseph Brown of Hammond
designed the
publication.
  Davis is the author of two novels, Marquis at Bay and Leechtime, both published by Louisiana
State University Press, and What They Wrote On the Bathhouse Walls: Yen's Marina, Chinese
Bayou,
Louisiana, a poetry chapbook published by Blue Hero Press. 
  Bedell said Louisiana Literature's newest special edition is also available and offers readers
"good literature on a subject that a lot of people care about deeply"   man's best friend.
  "Louisiana Dog Stories," guest edited by novelist and short story writer Patty Friedmann,
includes
works by poets Elton Glaser and Don Johnson, Texas Review editor Paul Ruffin, short story
writer Tom
Franklin, author Heather Ross Miller and creative writing professor Moira Crone.
  Louisiana Literature, which is published semi-annually, previously has issued special editions
on
topics such as Creole writing, ghost stories and the Jewish experience in Louisiana. Bedell said
an issue
focusing on religion in Louisiana will be published in summer 1999. 
  Virginia Patout's Parish is available for $8 and Louisiana Literature's "Louisiana Dog Stories"
for $6 from Louisiana Literature Press, SLU 10792, Hammond, LA 70402 or lalit@selu.edu.
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