The new Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin is introducing herself to the different regions of Louisiana, and she will be making a stop in Shreveport to meet all the area writers. Join SRAC and Alison for an Artist Talk and Meet & Greet during the Faces of Shreveport Common Exhibition Opening on Thusday, January 18.

5:00 - 6:30 - Faces of Shreveport Common opening

6:30 - 7:30 - Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin's Artist Talk

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 and ATLAS Grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents. She is 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.