MyNameIsNewOrleans

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.