Award-winning poet comes to LSU; get tickets now

Known for her thought-provoking works on race, sexuality and immigration, Haitian award-winning poet Lanelle Moise kicks off the LSU Performing Arts Series. She will perform her one-woman show, Womb-Words, Thirsting, which combines spoken word and musical numbers on growing up a gay Haitian-American. The show starts at 8 p.m next Wednesday night, Oct. 15 in the LSU School of Music Recital Hall. $25. (Courtesy Cranch-Hardy & Associates)