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Mark Folse lives & writes in & often about New Orleans. His poetry & prose has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The New Delta Review, The Rumpus, Metazen & the New Laurel Review; & in the collections Carry Me Home, What We Know: New Orleans as Home, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, & A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).He is the author of Carry Me Home, a set of essays originally appearing as blog posts on his Hurricane Katrina blog Wet Bank Guide which was cited by David Simon as among the inspirations for the HBO Series Treme. He blogs about New Orleans, literature & madness at ToulouseStreet.net (Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans), & maintains the literary event listings of New Orleans as Odd Words on ToulouseStreet.n ...more

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My German and French Acadian people, who arrived 50 years before the “American” revolution, were sold to “America” a century after they arrived here, unconsulted, along with the slaves in the fields and the “merciless Indian Savages” who showed the founders true democracy and were crushed for it. All just another colonial commodity to the U.S.

I was raised on the revised pledge of allegiance, the

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	Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina by Cynthia Joyce (Editor), Steve Allen (Contributor), Blake Bailey (Contributor) 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Howling in the Wires: An Anthology of Writing from Postdiluvian New Orleans by Various, Mark Folse (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maitri Erwin (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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