Place and context are grounding elements in poetry.  Gina Ferrara will read from her work and will discuss the functionality of place often influenced by historical, geographical, imagined, and ekphraistic elements that help to create psychological and locational maps in poems.   

About the Speaker:  

Gina Ferrara is an Associate Professor of English at Delgado Community College. She lives in New Orleans and has five poetry collections. Her latest, Amiss, was published by Dos Madres Press in 2023. Her work has appeared in many journals including Callaloo, The Poetry Ireland Review, Tar River, The Southern Review and was nominated for a Best of the Net and a Pushcart in 2024.  Since 2007, she has curated The Poetry Buffet, a monthly reading series in New Orleans.  

Funding for this Louisiana Poet Laureate program has been provided by the State of Louisiana and administered by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.