Poet Laureate Preview: Gina Ferrara, Louisiana Poet Laureate 2025-27

Join the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Delgado Community College in welcoming Louisiana’s newest poet laureate, Gina Ferrara. As Louisiana’s literary ambassador for two years, the poet laureate travels the state encouraging fellow Louisianans to explore and engage with poetry, supporting Louisiana’s vibrant and thriving poetry scene. Ferrara, an associate professor of English at Delgado Community College, will present a preview of her activities as Louisiana Poet Laureate through a reading at Delgado’s Timothy K. Baker Theatre.

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.  

Host or Publisher Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities