On Friday, August 3rd, the First Friday Reading Series
presents a poetry reading by Patrice Melnick at 7 p.m. at the Porch Coffee
House. The Porch partnered with the Arts & Humanities Council to present
this reading series which features poets and writers on the first Friday of
each month, and the public is invited to attend. The Porch will also host an Open Mic session following
the Reading.
Writer, arts administrator, educator, and business owner
Patrice Melnick is a veritable jack of all trades in the Louisiana writing
community. Melnick taught English and
Creative writing at Xavier University in New Orleans for 13 years, until
relocating to Grand Coteau after Hurricane Katrina. Melnick‘s essays and poems have appeared in Grain, The Xavier Review, and Prism
International among other literary
journals. Melnick also established the
Festival of Words Cultural Arts Collective in 2010, a nonprofit organization
which promotes the literary arts in her area.
Patrice Melnick holds a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin,
and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska,
Fairbanks.
The
Porch is located at 4710 Common Street in Lake Charles, and live music follows
each reading. For more information about the reading series, contact the Arts
Council at (337) 439-2787 or visit www.artsandhumanitiesswla.org.
