Cate Root is a poet in New Orleans. She moved here at 22 for no good reason and with no named ambitions. In nearly twenty years, she has found community with former NOLAFugees correspondents, her cohort at UNO's MFA program, journalists in a precarious industry, socialists who believe in a better world, and poets. She was a driving force behind Dogfish, and her new reading series is called ALOUD. Once a quarter, she hosts a 10-day poem-a-day collective writing project, RECESS.