On Sunday, August 20th, Baton Rouge Gallery’s Sundays@4 series is happy to host poet Gina Ferrara as she reads from her latest collection of poems, Amiss.
As with all Sundays@4 performances, this will be free and open to the public.
Gina Ferrara will read from Amiss, her latest collection of poems inspired by women who were either murdered or who are missing. Rather than focusing on the violent details surrounding circumstances, the poems are personal vignettes that travel throughout the American landscape with details specific to each victim.
Gina Ferrara lives and writes in New Orleans. Her poetry collections include Ethereal Avalanche (Trembling Pillow Press, 2009), Amber Porch Light (Word Tech 2013), Fitting the Sixth Finger: Poems Inspired by the Paintings of Marc Chagall (Kelsay Books 2017) and Weight of the Ripened (Dos Madres Press, 2020), a finalist for the Eyelands Poetry Prize. Amiss, also published by Dos Madres Press is her fifth collection. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo, The Poetry Ireland Review and Tar River Poetry and was selected for publication in the Sixty-Four Best Poets of 2019 by Black Mountain Press. Since 2007, she has curated The Poetry Buffet, a monthly reading that takes place via Zoom and the Latter Branch of the New Orleans Public Library the first Saturday of each month. She teaches English and writing at Delgado Community College and is the editor of the New Orleans Poetry Journal Press