Louisiana Poet Laureate Writing Workshop

Alison Pelegrin, Louisiana's Poet Laureate, will lead a workshop that will consist of poetry reading, Q&A, writing prompts and exercises, and sharing work (if so desired).

Funding for this Louisiana Poet Laureate program has been provided by the State of Louisiana and administered by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

About Alison Pelegrin:

Covington resident Alison Pelegrin is the author of  Our Lady of Bewilderment (LSU Press 2022), as well as  Waterlines (LSU 2016), Hurricane Party (U Akron 2011), and Big Muddy River of Stars, winner of the 2006 Akron Poetry Prize. Her chapbook Our Lady of the Flood won the Diode 2018 chapbook prize and an Eric Hoffer Award. She is the recipient of a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and an ATLAS Grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents. She is a Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University, and her work has appeared in Bennington Review, The Southern Review, Ninth Letter, and as printable broadsides at Broadsided.