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Gina Ferrara is the author of five poetry collections. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Tar River Poetry, The Delta Poetry Review, and The Southern Review. She is co-editor of the New Orleans Poetry Journal Press, which recently published The Poetry Buffet: An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry. Since 2007, she has curated The Poetry Buffet, a monthly reading series in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

 


Schedule

9:00 am to 10:00 am

State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room

Appetizers for the Poetry Buffet

with Anne Babson, Stacey Balkun, Gina Ferrara, Kelly Harris-DeBerry, Julie Kane, Daniel W.K. Lee, Monica Mankin, Benjamin Morris, Geoff Munsterman, Kay Murphy, Biljana D. Obradović, Melinda Palacio, Jonathan Penton, Valentine Pierce, Mona Lisa Saloy, and Sandra Sarr

 

3:15 pm to 4:00 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing


The Poetry Buffet: An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

The Poetry Buffet is an anthology of writing from nearly 100 poets of and near New Orleans as well as a celebration of The Poetry Buffet monthly reading series, now in its sixteenth year, hosted by Gina Ferrara at the Latter Library on Saint Charles Avenue.