Alison Pelegrin

Biography

Poet Laureate of Louisiana Alison Pelegrin's most recent poetry collections are Our Lady of Bewilderment and Waterlines. She is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as an ATLAS Grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents. Her work has recently been featured in The Bennington Review, The Southern Review, Limp Wrist, and as a printable broadside at Broadsided. She is writer-in-residence at Southeastern Louisiana University.

 


Schedule

10:15 am to 11:15 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
The Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets
with Gina Ferrara, Rodney Jones, Christine Kwon, Justin Lacour, Martha McFerren, Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith, and Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin

11:30 am to 12:15 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor Serials
Poet Laureate to Poet Laureate
with Mona Lisa Saloy and Alison Pelegrin

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
The Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets, Part 2
with Jack B. Bedell, Randy Gonzales, Biljana Obradović, Karisma Price, Dave Smith, and Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin

3:15 pm to 4:00 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing


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Our Lady of Bewilderment: Poems

Whether by way of visitations from secular saints, hauntings from childhood, or back talk from “indelicate broads,” a complicated world speaks to and through Alison Pelegrin in Our Lady of Bewilderment. An unusual blend of mystic-comedian, Pelegrin explores physical and psychic beauty and terror without losing sight of wonder. Drawing on the aid of beings real and imaginary, Our Lady of Bewilderment offers humorous, honest, and intimate poems contemplating life’s traumas and joys, filtered through the religion-infused secular traditions of Louisiana.

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