Maxine Cassin (1927–2010) bụ onye na-ede uri, onye nchịkọta akụkọ na onye mbipụta nke metụtara ma bipụta ọtụtụ ndị na-ede uri New Orleans, ọkachasị Everette Maddox, onye guzobere usoro ọgụgụ uri Maple Leaf Bar . A mụrụ Maxine Cassin na New Orleans na 1927 sitere na ndị Armenia na ndị Juu. Ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ Newcomb nke ụmụ nwanyị niile (nke bụ akụkụ nke Mahadum Tulane ugbu a), na-enweta MA na nkà ihe ọmụma. N'afọ 1954, ọ lụrụ Joe Cassin, onye lanarịrị Bataan Death March n'oge Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ; ha nwere otu nwa nwoke. N'afọ mgbe 1950s, Cassin na Richard Ashman deziri akwụkwọ akụkọ Poetry New Orleans . Ndị nyere aka gụnyere William Stafford, Donald Hall, Judson Jerome, Sylvia Plath, na Vassar Miller . Akwụkwọ akụkọ akwụkwọ akụkọ ahụ bipụtara Miller 's Adam's Footprint (1956) na Struggling to Swim on Concrete (1984), yana mkpokọta Maddox, Raeburn Miller, Martha McFerren, Tom Wright, Harold Witt, Felix Stefanile, Rosewell Graves.