Students will get a chance to hear a live poetry reading this Sunday when the LSU School of Art hosts poet C.D. Wright at the Old State Capitol at 5 p.m.The student organization Readers and Writers is hosting both Wright and the ALL CITY All Star Slam Team at the event, according to a news release. The work of photographer Deborah Luster will be displayed immediately after the readings at the Glassel Gallery downtown on Lafayette Street. Wright’s collaboration with Luster’s “One Big Self,” in which theydescribe the lives of prisoners in three Louisiana prisons, received a Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies, according to the release.”I am glad for the experience of visiting the prisons in Louisiana and acting as Debbie’s factotum on some of her shoots,” Wright said in an interview with Jacket Magazine. “We collaborate because we have twin sensibilities: politically, aesthetically, humorously. I don’t know if I could collaborate with anyone else.”Wright describes her interactions with the inmates as a surreal experience.”Debbie has been photographing inmates at three prisons: a maximum security male prison, a minimum security male prison and the women’s state prison,” she said. “Photographing incarcerated people on a visitor’s pass for an art book is definitely on the brink.”Wright has written 13 poetry collections, and her 13th collection, “Rising, Falling, Hovering,” was the international winner of the ninth annual Griffin Poetry Prize, according to the release. She is currently a professor of English at Brown University.The ALL CITY All Star Slam Team is composed of the top six individually ranked poets from Baton Rouge who competed at the 2009 ALL CITY Poetry Slam Festival, according to the Readers and Writers Web site.The Old State Capitol is located at 100 North Blvd., and theevent is free of charge.Follow Ben Bourgeois on Twitter @TDR_bbourgeois.
 
 
 
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