Toby Daspit is Professor of Education at UL Lafayette. He is Emeritus Consultant for the National Writing Project of Acadiana which he directed/co-directed for 16 years and is the founder of the Improving the Blank Page youth writing program. Daspit has published two chapbooks – Anatomy of a Ghost (and Other Poems Not About You) and Bar Coasters – and is completing his first full-length collection of poetry.

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

Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana