Alluvial Cities

The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Louisiana

Alluvial City, Louisiana, is a small fishing village in St. Bernard Parish, roughly 30 miles southeast of New Orleans. Lying between the Mississippi River and Lake Borgne’s open path to the Gulf of Mexico, the land has built up through accretion and worn away through erosion, leaving remnants of its history like a genealogy. The poems in Alluvial Cities are drawn from this layered landscape’s geology and history, its people and language, and the kindred ties between earth and water, flesh and blood.

CHRISTOPHER M. HANNAN is an attorney in New Orleans. He was the runner-up in the 2010 Faulkner-Wisdom Poetry Competition for his poem ＂Epithalamion,＂ and winner of the 2011 Tennessee Williams Festival Poetry Award for his cycle of poems, The Nephilim. He lives in the Mid-City neighborhood with his wife and son.