Ava Leavell Haymon Explained

Ava Leavell Haymon
Genre:	Poetry
Awards:	Poet Laureate of Louisiana

Ava Leavell Haymon was the 2013–2015 Poet Laureate of Louisiana.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Career

She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Eldest Daughter, Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread, Kitchen Heat and The Strict Economy of Fire, along with five chapbooks.

She is the editor of the forthcoming Louisiana State University Press, Barataria Poetry Series (Spring 2014) and has been awarded the Louisiana Literature Prize for poetry in 2003,^{[4] [5]} the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award for 2010,^[6] the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters 2011 Award in Poetry^[7] and has taught as an Artist in the Schools for a number of years.

Her third book, Why The House Was Made Of Gingerbread, was chosen as one of the top ten books of 2010 by Women's Voices for Change.^[8]

Ava's work has appeared in Northwest Review,^[9] Prairie Schooner,^[10] Poetry,^[11] and others.

Selected works

Books

• Book: Eldest Daughter: Poems. 12 August 2013. LSU Press. 978-0-8071-5339-0.
• Book: Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread: Poems. 1 March 2010. Louisiana State University Press. 978-0-8071-3757-4.
• Book: Kitchen Heat: Poems. 2006. LSU Press. 978-0-8071-3172-5.
• Book: The Strict Economy of Fire: Poems. 2004. LSU Press. 978-0-8071-2994-4.

Chapbooks

• Why the Groundhog Fears Her Shadow. Greensboro, North Carolina: March Street Press, 1996.
• Built in Fear of Heat. Troy, Maine: Nightshade Press, 1994.
• Staving Off Rapture. Chico, California: Flume Press, 1994.
• A Name Gift for Every Child. Baton Rouge: Mother Daybreak Press, 1991.

External links

• Official website
• "Ava Leavell Haymon", Poets & Writers
• Web site: Ava Leavell-Haymon reading. The Knox Writers’ House.
• Web site: Ava Leavell Haymon Reading at Baton Rouge Gallery . batonrougegallery .

Notes and References

1. News: Our Views: Haymon good pick for job . 22 August 2013 . The Advocate . 2 July 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029185748/http://theadvocate.com/news/opinion/6347880-123/our-views-haymon-good-pick . 29 October 2013 .
2. Web site: Louisiana Poet Laureate . Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities . 5 August 2022.
3. Web site: Louisiana . The Library of Congress . The Library of Congress . 30 July 2022.
4. Web site: Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry. 23 May 2013.
5. Web site: Ava Haymon: About . 23 May 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111230024921/http://avahaymon.com/about-ava/ . 30 December 2011 .
6. Web site: Books by Series - L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award. 23 May 2013.
7. Web site: Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Previous Winners 2010 - 2012 . 23 May 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210211/http://www.ms-arts-letters.org/winners.shtml . 3 March 2016 .
8. Web site: Poetry Friday Special. 15 May 2013. Women's Voices For Change. 10 Dec 2010.
9. Haymon. Ava Leavell. What the Witch Wanted. Northwest Review. 2006. 44. 3. 79–80.
10. Haymon. Ava Leavell. Cornucopia. Prairie Schooner. Fall 2003. 77. 3.
11. Haymon. Ava Leavell. Ava Leavell Haymon. Poetry. January 2003. CLXXXI. 3.