An Evening with Louisiana Poets Liz Burk, Randy Gonzales and J. Bruce Fuller

About the Event

Three Louisiana poets explore life's phases, adjusting to new environments - and the environment's own adjustments - in their acclaimed poetry collections. Join us at the Roy House at 5:00 p.m. for tea and refreshments. The readings begin at 5:30, and we invite you to stay for discussions and book signings with the authors.

Liz Burk, a psycologist from New York, whose adopted home of Louisiana is the subject of her new collection of poetry, invites fellow poets and the public for a reading at the Roy House.

UL Press author Randy Gonzales returns to the Roy House with his ground-breaking poetry about Filipino heritage and ancestral memories.

J. Bruce Fuller investigates how boyhood and fatherhood entwine to create cycles that mimic decaying and dangerous natural surroundings.

Unmoored is a debut collection of poems by Elizabeth Burk arranged loosely in the form of a memoir. The poems span growing up in politically radical NYC, to Parisian adventures, mid-life experiences, and aging. The book has been described as both existentially serious and massively entertaining.

Settling St. Malo brings us back to a time when Louisiana had the largest Filipino population in the United States. It explores a fishing village in Lake Borgne, shrimp drying platforms in Barataria Bay, and the Filipino Colony Bar in New Orleans. It shows how social, cultural, and political forces lead us to diminish the significance of these places and events.

In How to Drown a Boy, the woods, the water, the oil rigs, and the men who work them all have a powerful effect on the speaker from childhood through adulthood. These poems examine the weight of a family and culture against a backdrop of climate change and environmental disaster.

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