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JENNIFER PETERSON
ABOUT
About
Jennifer Polson Peterson currently serves as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She teaches writing at the University of Southern Mississippi and is the author of a poetry chapbook, Must Resemble Leisure, published by Seven Kitchens Press.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Image, The Southern Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, The Florida Review, and elsewhere.
Her poems have been adapted for performance by choir and orchestra, featured on Poetry Daily, and nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize.
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