The 2024 New Orleans Poetry Festival
On April 20, 2024, five Unlikely poets participated in the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Here is the footage of Michael Ruby, shot at St. Roch Tavern in New Orleans.
Michael Ruby is a poet, literary editor and journalist. He is the author of nine poetry books, most recently Sounds of Summer in the Country (BlazeVOX, forthcoming 2025), Close Your Eyes, Visions (Station Hill, 2024), The Star-Spangled Banner (Station Hill, 2020), The Mouth of the Bay (BlazeVOX, 2019), American Songbook (Ugly Duckling, 2013) and Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010). He also is co-editor of Bernadette Mayer’s early books; Mayer’s and Lewis Warsh’s collaboration Piece of Cake (Station Hill, 2020); and currently a large selected poems of Steve Dalachinsky. He lives in Brooklyn and worked for many years as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal.
