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Ed Ruzicka

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Ed Ruzicka has published three full-length books of poetry, most recently Squalls. His poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, the Chicago Literary Review, Rattle, Canary, and many other literary publications. He has had poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has been a finalist for the Dana Award and the New Millennium Award. Ruzicka is also president of the Poetry Society of Louisiana. He lives quietly as a retired occupational therapist under the green of live oaks in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his warm and caring wife, Renee.

Schedule

9:00 am to 10:00 am
Outside Museum, West Tent
The Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets, Volume 1
Ralph Adamo, All Fall Down: Poems 2020-2024
Catharine Savage Brosman, Metates and Other Poems
Elizabeth Burk, Unmoored: Poems
David Middleton, Time Will Tell: Collected Poems
Brad Richard, Turned Earth: Poems and Motion Studies: Second Edition
Ed Ruzicka, In the Wind: Poems
with Gina Ferrara

10:15 am to 11:00 am
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

In the Wind: Poems

"It might have been said that the soul is no traveler, but I'm here to tell you the heart sure is, and Ed Ruzicka's new collection, In the Wind, takes us all on a heck of a tour. From Amazonian jungles, to peaks in Peru, to trails in Ecuador, to jaunts through the American South, these poems sizzle with clarity and insight like the jangle of bells hanging around an alpaca's neck on a steep mountain trail. I promise you'll cherish the time you spend following these lines around the world." - Jack Bedell, author of Ghost Forest (Poet Laureate of Louisiana, 2017-2019)