Messages from Everywhere: Lifelines Poetry Project Workshop with Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin

This workshop is a welcoming space for all, especially those impacted by incarceration and the justice system. We will read, discuss, and write poems using the same prompts that Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin has used with incarcerated writers. Refreshments will be served. 

Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin (she/her) was born in 1972 and is a lifelong resident of the state. Her most recent poetry collections are Our Lady of Bewilderment (2022), which went on to be awarded the Phillip H. McMath Award in Poetry, and Waterlines (2016), both with LSU Press, and, with the University of Akron Press, Hurricane Party (2011) and Big Muddy River of Stars (2007), which won the Akron Prize in Poetry. In addition to publishing widely in print and online, she has written four chapbooks, including Our Lady of the Flood (Diode 2018) which won the Eric Hoffer Award for the Chapbook. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Foundation for Louisiana, and the Louisiana Board of Regents. She is the recipient of a 2024 Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, which will support her poetry outreach in Louisiana prisons and community centers. Pelegrin is Writer in Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University where she has taught for more than twenty years.

www.alisonpelegrin.com

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