Ava Leavell Haymon


Poet, Reader, Teacher & Author

Ava has read and performed her poems to audiences and book clubs all over the United States and Canada. Her poems are funny, sad, spooky, lively, approachable, and always appealing. She invites questions and an understanding of the art form.

Her first full length book, THE STRICT ECONOMY OF FIRE, is a wilderness adventure, a backpacking trek of 15 American women into the Kingdom of Nepal.

KITCHEN HEAT, Ava's second book, is a collection of poems springing from the frustrations, joys, and surprises of young married life-child rearing, burned toast, failed recipes, and frantic appeals to a remembered grandmother who seemed to know what she was doing. Both books are from Louisiana State University Press.

Ava travels around the country doing readings of her poems. In addition to these readings, she offers workshops in poetry writing. Typically for beginners who are interested in personal growth through self-expression (rather than those who are striving to become professional writers), the workshops can be tailored to a variety of time schedules and ages. An experienced teacher, Ava combines movement, voice, and simple drawing to free up the words that want to come flowing out.

From LSU Press:

http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/haymon.html

THE STRICT ECONOMY OF FIRE (2004)
KITCHEN HEAT (Aug, 2006)

Contact information:
225-766-4739
225-252-5198
(summer) 505-829-3960

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