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
Outside Museum, West Tent
Poet Laureate to Poet Laureate
Gina Ferrara and Alison Pelegrin

11:15 am to Noon
Outside Museum, West Tent
Hurricanes Katrina & Rita at 20: An Anthology of Louisiana Poetry with Art
Featuring contributors Malaika Favorite, J. Bruce Fuller, Merrill Guillory, Patrice Melnick, Michelle (M.A.) Nicholson, and Brad Richard, with editors Mona Lisa Saloy and John Warner Smith

Noon to 12:45 pm
State Library, First Floor, Seminar Center
Louisiana Writer Award Ceremony Honoring Julie Kane

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.

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Outside Museum, West Tent
The Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets, Volume 2
Dennis Formento, Phaeton’s Wheels
Olivia Clare Friedman, An Arm Fixed to a Wing: Poems
Skye Jackson, Libre
Benjamin Morris, The Singing River: Poems
Chuck Perkins, Beautiful and Ugly Too
with Gina Ferrara

1:15 pm to 2:00 pm
State Library, Second Floor, Meeting Room
A Conversation with Julie Kane
Julie Kane with moderator Alison Pelegrin

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Outside Museum, West Tent
From Borough to Bayou: A Conversation Between the State Poet Laureates
A poetry exchange between New York State Poet Laureate Kimiko Hahn and Louisiana State Poet Laureate Gina Ferrara

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
State Library, Second Floor, Meeting Room
The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford
James McWilliams with moderator Ralph Adamo