Louisiana is one of four states to have been chosen by Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate, for her fall tour, “American Conversations: Celebrating Poems in Rural Communities.”  Her Louisiana appearances in December are being coordinated by the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana with the Library of Congress.  For more information about the tour and our nation’s poet laureate, see the official announcement; and watch here for more details about Smith’s Louisiana appearances.