The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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Andy Young

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Andy Young is the author of All Night It Is Morning and four chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Missouri Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Drunken Boat. A graduate of Warren Wilson’s Program for Writers, her work has been translated into several languages, featured in classical and electronic music, in flamenco and modern dance performances, and in jewelry, tattoos, and public buses. She teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. 

 

Schedule

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room

Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets, Part 2

with Jack B. Bedell, Catharine Savage Brosman, Ariel Francisco, Barbara Hamby, Carolyn Hembree, Andy Young, and host Alison Pelegrin

 

1:45 pm to 2:30 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

Museum of the Soon to Depart

A poetic exploration of life amid intimate losses.

In Museum of the Soon to Depart, poet Andy Young searches for her place in history as it unfolds around her through revolution, plague, and natural disaster. As curator of her museum, she navigates her own and others’ suffering through intense observation, from the inner mechanisms of grief and illness to the solace of distance provided by photography. The material of the poet’s own life and events on the world stage intertwine, resulting in poems with a staggering range, inhabiting language in ways that ultimately point to its limits.