Sunday, April 21, 2019

Poets Pelegrin and Fuller to read at Teche Center



Poets Alison Pelegrin and J Bruce Fuller will read from and sign their respective poetry collections at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 26, at the Teche Center for the Arts in Breaux Bridge. This event is free and donations welcome.

Alison Pelegrin is the author of four poetry collections, most recently "Waterlines" (LSU Press 2016). Her chapbook "Our Lady of the Flood" was a winner of the Diode chapbook prize and was published in 2018. Pelegrin is the recipient of individual fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and her recent work has appeared in Tin House, Poetry East, and The Bennington Review. Pelegrin teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University and lives in Covington with her family.

J. Bruce Fuller is a Louisiana native. His chapbooks include "The Dissenter's Ground," "Lancelot" and "Flood" and his poems have appeared at The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, McNeese Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Louisiana Literature, among others. He has received scholarships from Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Stanford University, where he was a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is currently acquisitions editor at Texas Review Press.

For more information, visit the event's Facebook page here.



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