Poetic Nola is thirty poems about love, heartbreak, trauma, and the grace running under all of it — written in a voice schooled by second lines and Sunday prayers, from Uptown New Orleans to Dallas, Texas. Now available in hardback and Kindle.
Poetic Nola is built on three muses — comedy, a little extra, and tragedy — the way New Orleans itself moves from a second line to a hard lesson and back to faith.
Where it starts — laughter as shield and superpower. "Nawlins, My Home Forever," "Sunday Madness," "Any Given Sunday," and the wit that earned friends from Uptown to Cross the Canal.
The tender middle — love and becoming. "A Ring That Begins," "Fall Breeze," "My Dear Friend," and "Ya Heard Me: A New Orleans Testament." The small graces that hold a life together.
The cost and the climb out — "Addiction," "For the Love of Money," "Tragedy," and the closer, "Unbreakable." Survival, set to a beat.
"From second lines to hard lessons, from broken chains to new life — this is survival with a beat, faith in the struggle, and a story that keeps going… ya heard me!"— Epigraph, Poetic Nola
Seven poems from Poetic Nola — turned into songs. New Orleans soul, gospel-funk, and second-line testimony. Survival you can hear.
Poetic Nola is live now on Amazon — the $24.99 hardback and the $9 Kindle eBook. See the book, the full table of contents, and grab your copy in either format.
