blackbird spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

POETRY

ALISON PELEGRIN

Alison Pelegrin is the author of The Zydeco Tablets (Word Press, 2002) as well as three chapbooks: the forthcoming Squeezers (Concrete Wolf 2005), Voodoo Lips (Poems and Plays, 2002), and Dancing with the One-Armed Man (Slipstream, 2000). Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily and The Writer’s Almanac, and in dozens of literary journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Ontario Review, The Southern Review, and The Iowa Review. She is the recent recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and teaches English at Southeastern Louisiana University.