About Alison Pelegrin and Bennington Review

Today's poem is "Feast with a Mouthful of Bees"

from Bennington Review

Alison Pelegrin is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Our Lady of Bewilderment with LSU Press. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, as well as an ATLAS Grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents. Pelegrin is Writer in Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University, and her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Broadsided, The Bennington Review, and elsewhere.
Other poems by Alison Pelegrin in Verse Daily:
March 24, 2020: "Our Lady of Thoughts and Prayers" "I'm the weary saint of those who sorrow least..."
August 5, 2018: "Our Lady of Whatever" "I shall require a toolbox shrine, with mirrored walls..."
February 15, 2008: "Shaggy's Soul Food Open Soon, Said the Sign outside of Tallulah" "I once had faith in this message hand-lettered..."
February 9, 2007: "Mysterious Ways" "He actually said it—that, and..."
Books by Alison Pelegrin:

Other poems on the web by Alison Pelegrin:
"My Snatch Is Pretty Good"
"Myth of Myself"
"Alone, Drinking with the Tickfaw River"
"Our Lady of the Flood"
Three poems
Two poems
"Something in the Water"
Four poems
Alison Pelegrin's Website.
Alison Pelegrin on Twitter.
About Bennington Review:

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Poems from Bennington Review previously featured on Verse Daily:
April 25, 2022: "When the still breathing watch the stillborn" by Stella Wong
December 15, 2021: "For the Suburban Dead" by Malachi Black
December 14, 2021: "Death Pastoral" by Virginia Konchan
December 9, 2021: "Heaven and It's Orange Flowers" by Mary Biddinger
April 4, 2021: "I Was Sorrow" by Anne Marie Rooney
April 3, 2021: "That Life" by Troy Jollimore
April 2, 2021: "The Centaur" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
March 31, 2021: "When You're a Star, They Let You Do It" by Emma Bolden
March 30, 2021: "Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals" by Catherine Pierce
March 28, 2020: "Advent Poem" by Peter Cooley
March 27, 2020: "Orange" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 25, 2020: "Checkpoint" by David Baker
March 24, 2020: "Our Lady of Thoughts and Prayers" by Alison Pelegrin
March 27, 2019: Of Course" Lisa Fay Coutley
March 25, 2019: "Shovel" Jericho Brown
August 7, 2017: "Decimation" by Raymond McDaniel &
August 3, 2017: "The Nacreous Interior" by Ryo Yamaguchi
August 2, 2017: "Paradise" by Andy Stallings
August 1, 2017: "[In this small tent men pound]" by Gale Marie Thompson

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