Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina

by Mark Folse (Contributor)

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About the author

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.net, Facebook, Twitter & Google+. He views punctuation as a form of musical notation, is inordinately fond of the ampersand & the waterfall Faulknerian sentence of cascading ideas.