About Darrell Bourque
Mr. Bourque grew up in a rural community near Sunset, Louisiana. He graduated from USL and then received a master’s and a Ph.D. in creative writing from Florida State University. He is Professor Emeritus in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he served as director of the Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Humanities programs. He was appointed Louisiana Poet Laureate by then-Governor Kathleen Blanco in 2007 and reappointed by Governor Bobby Jindal in 2009. His personal initiative for the laureateship is to develop poetry audiences by teaching and reading in the pre‐college classroom as well as in the state's libraries. He has been instrumental in the creation of this website and the Louisiana Poetry Project in indebted to him for his support and encouragement.
BOOKS OF POETRY
if you abandon me, comment je vas faire: An Amede Ardoin Songbook (Yellow Flag Press, 2014)
Megan's Guitar and Other Poems from Acadie (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2013)
Holding the Notes (Chicory Bloom Press, 2011)
In Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2010)
Call and Response (Texas Review Press, 2009)
The Blue Boat (Center for Louisiana Studies, 2004)
Burnt Water Suite (Wings Press, 1999)
Plainsongs (Cross Cultural Communications, 1994)
Aubade: For a Summer Morning and for the Things Themselves (Kore Press, 1982)
In Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2010)
The Doors Between Us (Louisiana Literature Press, 1998)
Holding the Notes (Chicory Bloom Press, 2011)
