{"id":5668,"date":"2014-10-22T14:53:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2014-10-22T14:53:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:53:05","slug":"nicholls-to-host-award-winning-poet-for-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/22\/nicholls-to-host-award-winning-poet-for-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholls to Host Award-Winning Poet for Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIBODAUX \u2014 The Fletcher Lecture Series at Nicholls State University will present a question-and-answer session and lecture by Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy, author of the award-winning \u201cRed Beans &amp; Ricely Yours,\u201d on Thursday, Nov. 13. <\/p>\n<p>An author, folklorist and professor of English at Dillard University in New Orleans, Saloy won the T.S. 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