ALISON PELEGRIN 
    Self-Portrait in a Tourist’s Snapshots
 
 Alison Pelegrin’s poetry  collections include Big Muddy River of Stars (University of Akron Press,  2007) and The Zydeco Tablets (Word  Press, 2002). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.  She received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the  Arts.  
   Photo by Johnny Chauvin