Coastal Carolina panel: Jan DeBlieu, Ann Cary Simpson, Bland Simpson.

Bland Simpson, Ann Cary Simpson, and Jan DeBlieu take questions from the audience. Also: music by Bland Simpson.

On Friday morning, the topic was Hurricane Katrina. Featured speakers were John Biguenet, whose columns on the storm and its aftermath were printed in the New York Times, and environmental justice expert Robert Bullard.

Canadian poet Di Brandt and Fred Chappell, Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002, were the speakers.

Di Brandt and Fred Chappell take questions from the audience.