The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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J. Bruce Fuller

Home Featured Authors & Panelists Featured Participant Lineup J. Bruce Fuller

J. Bruce Fuller’s poems have appeared in the Southern Review and Best New Poets 2022, among other publications. He has received scholarships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Stanford University, where he served as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He teaches at Sam Houston State University and is the director of Texas Review Press.

 

  

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

 

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A

Rural Resilience and Redemption: Small Town Fiction

with Jeffrey Blount, C.H. Hooks, Stephen Hundley, and moderator J. Bruce Fuller

How to Drown a Boy: Poems

How to Drown a Boy, a debut collection of poems by J. Bruce Fuller, investigates how boyhood and fatherhood entwine to create cycles that mimic decaying and dangerous natural surroundings. The woods, the water, the oil rigs, and the men who work them all have a powerful effect on the speaker from childhood through adulthood. These poems examine the weight of family and culture against a backdrop of climate change and environmental disaster.