The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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Ariel Francisco

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Ariel Francisco is the author of All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins, published by Burrow Press, and translator of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud’s Poet of One Island, published by Get Fresh Books. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.

 

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

All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins

In his fourth collection of poems, Ariel Francisco mourns a Miami already ruined by climate change and development, and meditates on the future ruins of a city reclaimed by the sea. From constant flooding to the construction of a hulking Margaritaville on Hollywood Beach, Francisco weaves an elegy to a city in existential limbo with a blend of anger, humor, sadness, and insight. This edition includes Spanish translations by Francisco Henriquez that appear beside the original English.