Poet Laureate of Louisiana Gina Ferrara has published five poetry collections including her latest, Amiss. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo, The Poetry Ireland Review, and The Southern Review and been nominated for a Best of the Net and a Pushcart in 2024. Since 2007, she has curated The Poetry Buffet, a monthly reading series in New Orleans.  She teaches at Delgado Community College and lives near Bayou St. John with her husband, Jonathan Kline, and their bulldog.  

Schedule

9:00 am to 10:00 am
Outside Museum, West Tent
The Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets, Volume 1
Ralph Adamo, All Fall Down: Poems 2020-2024
Catharine Savage Brosman, Metates and Other Poems
Elizabeth Burk, Unmoored: Poems
David Middleton, Time Will Tell: Collected Poems
Brad Richard, Turned Earth: Poems and Motion Studies: Second Edition
Ed Ruzicka, In the Wind: Poems
with Gina Ferrara

10:15 am to 11:00 am
Outside Museum, West Tent
Poet Laureate to Poet Laureate
Gina Ferrara and Alison Pelegrin

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Outside Museum, West Tent
The Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets, Volume 2
Dennis Formento, Phaeton’s Wheels
Olivia Clare Friedman, An Arm Fixed to a Wing: Poems
Skye Jackson, Libre
Benjamin Morris, The Singing River: Poems
Chuck Perkins, Beautiful and Ugly Too
with Gina Ferrara

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Outside Museum, West Tent
From Borough to Bayou: A Conversation Between the State Poet Laureates
A poetry exchange between New York State Poet Laureate Kimiko Hahn and Louisiana State Poet Laureate Gina Ferrara

3:15 pm to 4:00 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

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