2025 Louisiana Writer Award recipient Julie Kane is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and served as Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2011-2013. She is Professor Emerita of English at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She is the author of Naked Ladies, Jazz Funeral, Body and Soul, and Mothers of Ireland.

Schedule

9:00 am to 10:30 am
Outside Museum, West Tent
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana
Ralph Adamo, Jack B. Bedell, Jordan Biggs, Toby Daspit, Malaika Favorite, Mark Folse, Dennis Formento, John Gery, Ashley Mace Havird, David Havird, Roberta Whitman Hoff, Mason Joiner, Julie Kane, Biljana D. Obradović, Ed Ruzicka, Bessie Senette, Michael S. True, and Andy Young with John P. Travis

10:45 am to 11:30 am
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Noon to 12:30 pm
Outside Museum, West Tent
Fire in the Mind: New and Selected Poems
Catharine Savage Brosman with moderator Julie Kane

Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana