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Police Jury and City of Lake Charles Closed for Memorial Day Memorial Day weekend begins Friday and runs through this Monday, May 31. As the holiday approaches, the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury and City of Lake Charles have announced they will both be closed for the holiday. If you are a resident in Lake Charles, your trash and garbage pickup will be interrupted on Monday. Here is how the pickup schedule will be altered next week. Trash and garbage normally picked up on Monday will be rescheduled for pickup on Tuesday, June 1. Trash and garbage normally picked up on Tuesday will be reschedule...

Chloe Thompson is a SAIL High School student interning with WFSU as part of the Age of Nature project. She spent a semester getting to know Lake Elberta, and helped organize a cleanup there in March of 2021. Chloe closes out her internship with a look at fixing Lake Elberta’s garbage issue- in the long term. In February of 2021, I had visited Lake Elberta for the very first time. Before then, to be honest, I probably had driven by it countless times, but never seemed to notice it until intentionally looking for it. The park was a truly beautiful place, filled with all sorts of wildlife an...

INTRODUCTION  As I’ve learned from my own experiences in the classroom both as a student and as an instructor, poetry is so often taught badly to us in grade school (if at all). I am, to this day, learning how to undo the myth of poetry being the work of certainty—a perfect command of a subject, experience, event proclaimed through verse. This is obviously a byproduct of the ways in which the Western canon is taught: the work of “great masters” whose genius we are trained to admire and respect. But my immersion in queer and disability writing has taught me the value of

Ask any historian of Canadian literature to name the country’s first literary agent and the response you’ll likely get is Matie Molinaro. Founder of the Canadian Speakers’ and Writers’ Service, the Toronto-based Molinaro was at one time the only professional of her kind in the country. Her company was responsible for representing foundational CanLit authors – including Earle Birney, Harry Boyle, and Marshall McLuhan – from its establishment in 1950 through the 1970s, when other agents and authors’ representatives began to appear on the scene in force. But McGill University profe...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is coming up this Monday, January 18, and the city of Lake Charles will observe the holiday.