A year after New Orleans teen’s death, parents publish poetry found on their phone

NEW ORLEANS — The “local poetry” shelf at Blue Cypress Books is packed. But one author is different from the rest.

For one, Belle Adelman-Cannon was just a teenager when they wrote the poems collected in the book They also did not live to see their work published.

“Faced with the choice of, ‘there will never be a public record of Belle’s consciousness,’ or ‘there will be,’” Adelman-Cannon’s father Charles Cannon told WWL Louisiana, “we went for the latter.”

Two years ago, Adelman-Cannon was leaving their job at Grow Dat Youth Farm

Not long after, their mother was going through their phone and stumbled on a large collection of poetry written by Adelman-Cannon. “The irony is, Belle would have been outraged if we had done that if they were living,” said Cannon.

He and Adelman-Cannon’s mo