Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits ​​Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collections are Elliptic (Yellow Flag Press, 2016), Revenant (Blue Horse Press, 2016), and No Brother, This Storm (Mercer University Press, 2018), Color All Maps New (Mercer 2021). His work has appeared in the Southern Review, Radar Poetry, The Fourth River, Terrain.org, Construction, Grist, Sugar House, Shenandoah, Pidgeonholes, Amethyst Review and other journals. Bedell is the recipient of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Individual Achievement in the Humanities Award and the Governor’s Award for Artistic Achievement. He was appointed by Governor John Bel Edwards to serve as Louisiana Poet Laureate, 2017-2019.
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities article in 64 Parishes: https://64parishes.org/the-poetry-of-jack-bedell
Bone-Hollow, True: New and Selected Poems by 
Call and Response: Conversations in Verse by 
Jack B. Bedell Greatest Hits by 
No Brother, This Storm by Laureates Online with former Louisiana Poet Laureate, Jack Bedell from 64 Parishes [2020]
He reads his poem “Summer, Botany Lesson”: https://fb.watch/57RlfYs0ZJ/
Links to the majority of his books can be found at the following:
https://www.mupress.org/Search.aspx?k=jack+bedell
https://www.tamupress.com/search-results/?keyword=bedell
Personal web site: www.jackbbedell.com
Twitter: @jackbedell
Instagram: @jackbbedell
