NEW ORLEANS AS A HOME FOR WRITERS
Friday, March 27
10 – 11:15 AM—Literary Discussion
NEW ORLEANS AS A HOME FOR WRITERS
This was the first panel discussion presented at the Festival in 1987 with tickets costing $2. It was repeated in 2007, and both times New Orleans poet Ralph Adamo was the moderator.
New Orleans is known as a city that inspires and nurtures writers, as it did Tennessee Williams. For the third time in forty years, we’ve gathered a group of writers to discuss those distinctive elements which made the city so congenial to their creative spirits: C. Morgan Babst, whose fiction and non-fiction paint a vivid picture of the city at its best and its worst; Louisiana Poet Laureate Gina Ferrara, known for her own work and for hosting a monthly Poetry Buffet reading series for nearly twenty years; bestselling and multi-award winning fiction writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin, whose work captures so many distinct views of New Orleans; Mona Lisa Saloy, Louisiana Poet Laureate 2021-2023, whose poetry brings Black Creole culture to life on the page; and Ralph Adamo, who returns to moderate this panel for a third time, and brings nearly fifty years of published poetry to the New Orleans literary legacy.
Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom, $10 or LitPass or VIP Pass.
$10.00
