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Stacey Balkun

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Stacey Balkun is the author of Sweetbitter and co-editor of Fiolet & Wing. Her work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Pleiades, and several other anthologies and journals. Balkun holds a PhD from the University of Mississippi and an MFA from Fresno State. She teaches online at The Poetry Barn. 

 

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.