424. Clint Bruce. Afro-Creole Poetry.

<div>424. We <a href="http://archive.org/download/424-clint-bruce/424--Clint_Bruce.mp3" target="_blank">interview</a> Clint Bruce, author of <a href="https://www.hnoc.org/publications/books/afro-creole-poetry" target="_blank"><i>Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War–Era Newspapers:</i><i>A Bilingual Edition</i></a>. Collected here for the first time, seventy-nine poems published in the Civil War-era Afro-Creole New Orleans newspapers <i>L'Union</i> and <i>La Tribune</i>--most unavailable anywhere but in archives--bring to life a close-knit, politically progressive French-speaking community of artists and intellectuals whose cultural and legal legacies were monumental. <span><a name='more'></a></span>The original French poems appear here alongside Clint Bruce's sensitive English translations, mindful of meaning, meter, and sound. A comprehensive introduction, biographies of the poets, and extensive annotations immerse readers in Civil War-era Louisiana. In his research for the volume, Bruce unearthed crucial issues of <i>La Tribune</i> long thought lost and discovered the extent of a poetic hoax undetected for nearly 150 years.</div> <ol type="a"> <li>This week in Louisiana history. July 3, 1870. The riverboat Robert E. Lee defeated the Natchez in a race on the Mississippi. </li> <li>This week in New Orleans history. Pierre Dewey LaFontaine, Jr. was born in New Orleans on White Street between Dumaine and St. Ann on July 3, 1930. As a child battling frequent respiratory infections due to weakened lungs, a local doctor advised his father to purchase a wind instrument -- Pete chose a clarinet. He took private lessons and played at McDonogh 28 school. After gigs with Monk Hazel and Al Hirt. he founded The Basin Street Six in 1950 with his longtime friend, trumpeter George