Dylan Krieger is a writer, editor, and teacher based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She earned her BA in English & Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and her MFA in creative writing at LSU. She is the author of seven books of poems, the managing editor of newsprint literary magazine Fine Print, and co-creator of the astrological poem generator The Orb.  

Schedule

10:15 am to 11:15 am

State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room

Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets

with Nicole Cooley, Peter Cooley, J. Bruce Fuller, Dylan Krieger, Ed Ruzica, and host Alison Pelegrin

11:30 am to 12:15 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

Predators Welcome

Predators Welcome is a book of poems written by one sibling in search of another. Eager to recover some shared mythology with the rest of the world, the speaker of these poems calls for a witness-any witness-to confirm that the frightening cosmologies of childhood were more than just isolated daydreams. Challenging, broadening, and redefining our understanding of predatory animals-and, yes, that means us-this book lays bare both personal and societal cycles of violence and neglect, suggesting their intergenerational reenactment is one way we paradoxically prove ourselves to be a single human family, "raised by the same wolves," with ancestors whose stories must not only be told, but lived and relived. Trapped in such a paradoxical circumstance, the human-as-predator is most dangerous, and yet, most connected to and emboldened by history. In this way, these poems urge us to find commonality not merely in past atrocities, but in a present and future rebellion from historical precedent itself.