awmaceApr 9, 20202 minApril 9, 2020: More Than ThisThis is the title poem for David Kirby's collection, MORE THAN THIS, which I have finally managed to pry from David Havird's fingers. It'...
awmaceApr 8, 20201 minApril 8, 2020: The PardonThis is my all-time favorite "dog" poem. Exquisite phrasing, imagery, music. THE PARDON by Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) My dog lay dead fiv...
awmaceApr 8, 20201 minApril 7: I Dreamed of Being Mothered by a CatEven we dog people can identify with this poem of longing by Julie Kane, from her new book from LSU Press, MOTHERS OF IRELAND. I Dreamed ...
awmaceApr 6, 20201 minApril 6, 2020: Deer Among CattleAnother poem for Easter week, by the great poet and my long-ago teacher, James Dickey, whose poetry readings set the room on fire. DEER ...
awmaceApr 5, 20201 minApril 5, 2020, Palm Sunday: The DonkeyThe Donkey By G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon w...
awmaceApr 4, 20201 minApril 4, 2020: EncounterBy Czeslaw Milosz Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing r...
awmaceApr 3, 20202 minApril 3: Time to Plant TearsAfter glancing at the news this morning, I read this poem by Elizabeth Bishop seven times in a row to try to re-center. This is where we ...
awmaceApr 2, 20201 minApril 2, 2020. From "Clearances," In Memoriam M.K.M.This sonnet, which recalls a morning shared between the young author and his mother, peeling potatoes, topped an RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éi...
awmaceApr 1, 20201 minApril 1, 2020: Fish CoveWelcome to Poetry Month this April of the coronavirus. Since all things physical are on hold for now—in the literary world workshops dela...
awmaceDec 26, 20194 min Caddo Poet Laureate named 2019 Book Lover of the YearBy Judy Christie. THE SHREVEPORT TIMES. Published 7:00 p.m. CT Dec. 25, 2019 Poet and novelist Ashley Mace Havird foresees a busy 2020, ...
awmaceOct 8, 20181 minThis week on LPB's Art Rocks! - Poet Laureate of Caddo Parish Ashley Mace Havird, the Hilliard UOn Art Rocks! Friday, September 28 at 8:30PM and Saturday, September 29 at 5:30PM, Shreveport writer and Poet Laureate of Caddo Parish, A...
awmaceAug 12, 20181 minTennessee Williams New Orleans Book Festival 2018Our lovely audience (and some NW poets!) at the Nasty Women Poets of Louisiana Reading, March 24, 2018. And here's the whole reading!
By Jessica CarrMay 1, 20183 minWriting Her TruthAshley Mace Havird Named 2018 Caddo Parish Poet Laureate (THE FORUM, Shreveport, April 23, 2018) Growing up on a tobacco farm in South Ca...
THE TIMES (SHREVEPORT)Apr 26, 20183 minCaddo Parish Poet Laureate SelectedThe Caddo Parish Commission has selected Ashley Mace Havird as the 2018 Caddo Parish Poet Laureate. She will serve a three-year term thro...
awmaceApr 1, 20181 minLightningstruck at Hobcaw BaronyA blowy, blustery, sunny day in early March. And I got to read from my historical girl-and-horse novel in Belle Baruch's stable yard. The...
awmaceFeb 9, 20181 minNorthwest Louisiana Nasty Women Poets in Shreveport.Carolyn Breedlove, Julie Kane, Katie Bickham, and Ashley Mace Havird at the Meadows Museum, Centenary College, Shreveport. A hugely fun r...
awmaceFeb 9, 20181 minGet Litt on DalzellThree hosts in a historic Shreveport neighborhood provided food, drinks, and a porch for listening, while several local writers read thei...
awmaceFeb 9, 20181 minNasty Women Poets at the Louisiana Book Festival, Oct. 28, 2017Brilliant Louisiana book launch for NASTY WOMEN POETS: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse.
awmaceOct 14, 20171 minMary Jane Malone Lecturer: Caddo Magnet High School, Oct. 10, 2017Creative writing contest finalists! Afternoon workshop. So much talent in one room!
