My Name Is New Orleans - Spoken Word Professor Arturo is a legendary New Orleans jazz poet. When Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, Professor Arturo survived floodwaters and an odyssey across the USA to arrive in Stamford, Connecticut, where he has re-established himself as a star of the Greater New York City area performing poetry scene. In 2006, he returned for a triumphant engagement at The Maple Leaf in New Orleans Professor ARTURO, a poet and fiction writer from New Orleans, is a Spoken Word artist, educator, performer, editor and speechwriter who received a Master of Arts degree in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. degree in English/Journalism from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Professor Arturo is one of the original Broadside poets of the 1960s

Audio file: Poem for Our Fathers To listen, left-click the above link, and allow some time for the file to download. This is one of the six poems that are on the CD Merrittorious Action, presented as an insert in the book. This reading takes about 10 minutes. The CD is about an hour long. If you wish to download this poem to your PC so you can play it off-line, right click on the link, select Save Target As... from the menu, and follow the prompts. Slide Show Picture gallery: Arturo, friends and family.