Poetry
9:00 am to 10:00 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
Appetizers for the Poetry Buffet
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
9:00 am to 9:45 am
State Capitol, House Chamber
Louisiana Writer Award Ceremony Honoring David Kirby
10:00 am to 10:45 am
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room C
A Conversation with David Kirby
David Kirby with moderator Darrell Bourque
10:15 am to 11:15 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets
Nicole Cooley, Mother Water Ash: Poems
Peter Cooley, Accounting for the Dark
J. Bruce Fuller, How to Drown a Boy: Poems
Dylan Krieger, Predators Welcome
with host Alison Pelegrin
11:30 am to 12:15 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
Poets of Narrative 4
Darrell Bourque, Until We Talk
with moderator Sheryl St. Germain
Noon to 4:00 pm
State Library Lobby
Poetry-To-Order
Cassandra de Alba and GennaRose Nethercott
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets, Part 2
Jack B. Bedell, Ghost Forest: Poems
Catharine Savage Brosman, Aerosols and Other Poems
Ariel Francisco, All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins
Barbara Hamby, Holoholo: Poems
Carolyn Hembree, For Today: Poems
Andy Young, Museum of the Soon to Depart
with host Alison Pelegrin
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
Narrative 4 and the National Student Poets
Felice Belle, Marcus Burns, Darrell Bourque, Robert Gao, Sofia Kamal, Anya Melchinger, Nadia Wright, with moderators Hannah Jones and Dennis Nangle
(ages 14 and up)