Alison Pelegrin

Current Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Waterlines (2016) and Our Lady of Bewilderments (2022), both with LSU Press. The recipient of fellowships from the NEA, and the Louisiana Board of Regents, she is Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University. She has work in recent or forthcoming issues of The Missouri Review, The Bennington Review, Limp Wrist, and as printable broadsides at Broadsided. Her Lifelines Poetry Project, an initiating to bring poetry workshops to Louisiana Prisons and Communities, was awarded a 2024 Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. 

2023 Events
Belle Point Poets
2024 Events
titter-titter ... tee-hee ... YIKES!: A Conversation on Humor in Women's Poetry
NOPF Roadshow: Southeastern University
2025 Events
Words of Wonder: Poet Laureates on Joy, Praise, and Hope
Nasty Woman Poets
Lifelines Poetry Project