# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Artist Talk with Louisiana Poet Laureate Gina Ferrara
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 09 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Fri, 09 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a special artist and craft talk with Louisiana Poet Laureate Gina Ferrara.

Gina Ferrara will discuss different methodologies used when writing poetry, with a focus on poems drawn from personal experience as well as poetry informed and inspired by research. This talk offers insight into craft, process, and the many ways poets shape meaning through lived experience and inquiry.

Gina Ferrara is the author of five poetry collections, including Weight of the Ripened and Amiss, with a sixth collection, The Rooted and Recurrent, forthcoming in 2026 from ULL Press. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, The Southern Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Tar River, and more, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. In 2025, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Louisiana. She also curates The Poetry Buffet, a long-running monthly reading series in New Orleans.

This event is open to writers, students, artists, and anyone interested in poetry and creative practice.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/shreveport/artist-talk-with-louisiana-poet-laureate-gina-ferrara/200029469134311
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 29

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Shreveport
- **state**: LA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 801 Crockett St, Shreveport, LA, United States, Louisiana 71101
- **lat**: 32.50874
- **long**: -93.75093
- **full address**: 801 Crockett St, Shreveport, LA, United States, Louisiana 71101

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Artist Talk with Louisiana Poet Laureate Gina Ferrara being held?
  - **A:** Artist Talk with Louisiana Poet Laureate Gina Ferrara takes place on Fri, 09 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Fri, 09 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 801 Crockett St, Shreveport, LA, United States, Louisiana 71101.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Artist Talk with Louisiana Poet Laureate Gina Ferrara?
  - **A:** Artist Talk with Louisiana Poet Laureate Gina Ferrara is organized by Shreveport Regional Arts Council.

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