Alan Pizzarelli (born 1950) is an American poet, songwriter, and musician.

He was born of an Italian-American family in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in the first ward’s Little Italy.

Pizzarelli has performed numerous poetry readings and has taught poetry workshops in the US and internationally, including the International School of Lausanne, Switzerland, The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association in Camden, New Jersey, and The Newark Museum.

From 2005 until 2009 he was senryū editor for the online poetry journal, Simply Haiku.

Tom Lynch writes of the following Pizzarelli haiku: "This last poem is as profound and literal an evocation of sabi, the incessant rusting of existence wrought by time, as exists in Western haiku.