Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at 20: An Anthology of Louisiana Poetry and Art, Edited by Mona Lisa Saloy and John Warner Smith, Black Bayou Press
“They say ‘You’re either going to a storm, going through a storm, or coming out of one.’// That’s what they say,” begins a poem by J. Kevin Chavis in a new anthology commemorating the 20th anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
“So, we wait. //Wait to go to. //Wait to go through.//And once you’re through, you pick up the pieces and rebuild.”…