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.
NOPF Roadshow: Southeastern University
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Lifelines Poetry Project