These changes, she adds, have influenced her work. “I write a lot less poetry now and more prose, more short stories in an attempt to document and capture the way New Orleans was before.” Although she still performs older poems, verses imbued with political and social conscience, the new work is important to her. “I’m trying to define precisely what it is that we’re trying to recapture and preserve. Because it will never be that way again.”
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