BATON ROUGE La.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco has named a professor emeritus at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette as the state’s next poet laureate.
Darrell Bourque’s two-year appointment must be confirmed by the state Senate.
Bourque, 65, is the second poet laureate nominated by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities under a selection process set up by former Gov. Mike Foster. He succeeds Brenda Marie Osbey.
Louisiana’s poet laureate serves a two-year term and is expected to deliver an annual reading in a location in the state as designated by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Bourque has four published collections, including “The Blue Boat,” which was the inaugural issue of special editions of the Center for Louisiana Studies.
He is a resident of rural St. Landry Parish.
