Programs by Subject - Poetry

9:00 am to 10:00 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
Supernatural Laundry: Louisiana Women Poets Engaged in Domestic Fabulism
Some of the poets of the Women’s National Book Association of New Orleans are reclaiming what Chaucer’s Wife of Bath called the authority of experience and presenting poetic works where the daily chores and the supernatural dance together. From a diversity of perspectives, they are offering us through their verse a reclamation of the supernatural in our empirical age, engendering a soulful language for a time that might at moments appear soulless. This panel begins with a brief discussion of domestic fabulism with poets Anne Babson and Stacy Balkun, followed by a series of poets—Nordette Adams, Pamela Ebel, Gina Ferrara, and Melinda Palacio—reading their works.

10:15 am to 11:15 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
The Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets
Gina Ferrara, Amiss
Rodney Jones, Alabama: Poems
Christine Kwon, A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue
Justin Lacour, My Heart Is Shaped Like a Bed: 46 Sonnets
Martha McFerren, The McFerren Plot: Poems
Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith, The Land Baron's Sun: The Story of Ly Loc and His Seven Wives
with Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin

11:30 am to 12:15 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor Serials
Poet Laureate to Poet Laureate
Alison Pelegrin and Mona Lisa Saloy

Noon to 4:00 pm
State Library Lobby
Poetry-to-Order
Cassandra de Alba and GennaRose Nethercott will compose free custom poetry written on the topic of your choice -- by individual request.

12:45 pm to 1:45 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
National Student Poets 2023 with Louisiana Poets Laureate
with Darrell Bourque, Jacqueline Flores, Miles Hardingwood, Shangri-La Hou, Kallan McKinney, Gabriella Miranda, Mona Lisa Saloy, and moderator Hannah Jones

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
The Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets, Part 2
Jack B. Bedell, Against the Woods' Dark Trunks: Poems
Randy Gonzales, Settling St. Malo: Poems
Biljana Obradović, Little Disruptions: Poems
Karisma Price, I’m Always So Serious: Poems
Dave Smith, Looking Up: Poems, 2010-2022
with Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin

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