The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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Monica Mankin

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Monica Mankin is a New Orleans, Louisiana, based poet originally from Southern California. She earned her BA in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, and her MFA in English: Poetry at the University of Idaho, Moscow. She makes books, poems, and podcasts, and some of her work can be found online at Blood Orange Review, Connotation Press, im-possiblethink.com, TheParadeatHome.com, Split Rock Review, and The Turnip Truck(s).

 

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.