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Poetry Reading by Brenda Marie Osbey – Part 1 of 3 Brenda Marie Osbey is the author of All Saints: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press, 1997), which received the 1998 American Book Award. She is the author also of Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman (Story Line Press, 1991), In These Houses (Wesleyan University Press, 1988) and Ceremony for Minneconjoux (Callaloo Poetry Series, 1983; University Press of Virginia, 1985). Brenda Marie Osbey received the BA from Dillard University, the MA from the University of Kentucky, and also attended the Université Paul Valéry at Montpélliér, France. She has taught French and English at Dillard University in New Orleans, African American and Third World literatures at the University of California at Los Angeles, African American literature and creative writing at Loyola University, and was visiting writer-in-residence at Tulane University. Brenda Marie Osbey is a native of New Orleans. In Spring 2005, she was appointed Poet Laureate of the State of Louisana.