Poet Laureate of Louisiana
Lifelines Workshop
WHAT: Lifelines Writing Workshop with Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin
WHEN: Saturday, June 7, 2025
TIME: Noon to 2:30
WHERE: Opelousas Museum
CONTACT: Patrice Melnick 337-948-2589; museum@cityofopelousas.com
Meet and write with Alison Pelegrin, Poet Laureate of Louisiana. This presentation is part of the Lifelines Poetry Project.
This workshop is a welcoming space for all. Participants will read, discuss, and write poems using the same prompts that Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin has used with incarcerated writers as part of her Lifelines Poetry Project initiative during which she has led poetry workshops in Louisiana prisons and communities to emphasize our shared humanity. Refreshments will be served.
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 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.
Funding for this Louisiana Poet Laureate program has been provided by the State of Louisiana and administered by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. The Lifelines Poetry Project is also made possible through a grant from The Foundation for Louisiana and funding from the Mellon Foundation.
FMI: Patrice Melnick 337-948-2589; museum@cityofopelousas.com
