Poetry in the Noel Collection Exhibit

Poetry in the Noel Collection Exhibit by James Smith Noel will be featured at Louisiana State University on the 3rd floor in the Noel Memorial Library in Shreveport Mondays -Fridays from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., until July 7.


Spring is here and this year the James Smith Noel Collection has chosen to highlight poetry ranging from the classics of Homer to the modernists like E.E. Cummings. The exhibit will display some Louisiana poets, dialectic poems, and an Icelandic Edda. Revisit the sonnets of Poe, Coleridge, and Luis de Camoes and read through a few ballads from Thomas Percy, the Tale of Robin Hood, and Lord Alfred Tennyson. Come visit us the Noel Collection to share in our joyous celebration through song and verse from spring to mid-summer seasons.