Lecture and poetry reading: Rodger Kamenetz, Louisiana State University honors professor and founding director of LSU’s Master’s of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing and the Jewish Studies Program. Kamenetz is author of five books of poetry, including “The Lowercase Jew,” nonfiction such as the bestselling “The Jew in the Lotus” and National Jewish Book Award-winning “Stalking Elijah,” and a memoir, “Terra Infirma.”