Lee Meitzen Grue when she came up after open mike at the Gold Mine and suggested a journal for the poem I’d just read and later solicited a poem for New Laurel Review.
Darrel Borque, before a large crowd as he handed on the state laureate ‘s crown to his successor, when he said, So many great New Orleans poets in the audience tonight: Gina Ferrara, Mark Folse.
Niyi Osundare who came up to me after Open Mic at the Gold mine to compliment my poem.
Megan Burns who invited me to co-feature at the Gold mine one night.
Rodney Jones when he turned to me at a recent workshop he attended after I read what I had written there and said, you write great first drafts.
Peter Cooley, sitting next to Rodney at that Workshop, turned his head after that and said, yesh!
John Gery and Carolyn Hembree who accepted me into the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop.
David Simon who, when discussing blogging versus journalism, mentioned three blogs that helped inform the series Treme. One was mine, the Wet Bank Guide.
When Maud Newton tweeted Toulouse Street – Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans as her favorite New Orleans blog.
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