The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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Felice Belle

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© Robyn Twomey

© Robyn Twomey

Felice Belle is the Artists Network Director for Narrative 4, a global organization that equips young people to harness the power of stories to drive change in their communities. As a poet and playwright, she has performed at the Apollo Theater, TEDWomen, and TEDCity2.0. Her writing has been published in several journals and anthologies including Oral Tradition and The Common. She is a lecturer in the low-residency MFA program at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York.  

 

  

Schedule

11:30 am to 12:15 pm

State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room

Poets of Narrative 4

with Felice Belle, Darrell Bourque, and moderator Sheryl St. Germain

 

12:30 pm to 1:15 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

 

1:45 pm to 2:45 pm

State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room

Narrative 4 and the National Student Poets

with Felice Belle, Marcus Burns, Darrell Bourque, Robert Gao, Sofia Kamal, Anya Melchinger, Nadia Wright, and moderators Hannah Jones and Dennis Nangle

(ages 14 and up)

Viscera

In a world that expects women to take care of everyone else except themselves, and find validation and value in such self-negation, Felice Belle’s Viscera is an unflinching practice and declaration of defining oneself for oneself, with radical acceptance of the great, and challenging, consequences of doing so. Viscera is poetry for people who think they hate poetry—quirky, accessible and pop culture obsessed…for fans of 90 Day Fiancé and Ntozake Shange…an urban (self) love story for anyone who has ever felt like an other…a celebration of what Jonathan Lethem calls the “frivolous Now.”