Jacqueline Allen Trimble is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, a Cave Canem Fellow, and a two-time Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellow. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Offing, The Rumpus, Poet Lore, Salvation South and other journals, has been widely anthologized, most notably in This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, and has been featured by Poem of the Day, Poem-a-Day, and Poetry Daily. Her first collection, American Happiness, won the Balcones Poetry Prize, and her next collection, How to Survive the Apocalypse, was named one of the ten best poetry books of 2022 by the New York Public Library. Trimble is Professor of English and chairs the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University. She serves as the Poet Laureate of Alabama.
Word of South is delighted to have Jacqueline Trimble join us for a repeat visit. She will appear in 2026 with poet and songwriter, Lee Bains and Salvation South founder Chuck Reece.