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Elizabeth Burk

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Elizabeth Burk is a psychologist by profession and a native New Yorker who divides her time between family in New York and a home and husband in southwest Louisiana. She is the author of Unmoored and has three previous collections: Learning to Love Louisiana, Louisiana Purchase, and Duet-Poet & Photographer—a collaboration with her photographer husband. Her poems, prose pieces, and reviews have been published in numerous journals and anthologies.

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

Unmoored: Poems

Poet Suzanne Cleary, author of Crude Angel, says this about Elizabeth Burk’s new poetry collection, “Unmoored is both existentially serious and massively entertaining.” It is arranged loosely in the form of a memoir—as a New Yorker who married a Cajun, Burk lives part-time in southwest Louisiana and has published two chapbooks describing this experience, Learning to Love Louisiana and Louisiana Purchase. This new collection includes many poems from these chapbooks as well as new poems that focus on aging—on getting through the last stretch of life with grace and humor. Burk has compiled her work into a poetic memoir of a life well-lived and well-examined for all of its eccentricities and triumphs. Undoubtedly, Unmoored can be counted among the latter.