Left Behind
I’m getting far too deft at elegies, at details that would force a poet’s hand beyond...
Read MoreAllison Joseph lives, writes, and teaches in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University. She serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review, moderator of the Creative Writers Opportunities List, and director of the Young Writers Workshop, a summer writers workshop for teen writers. Her books and chapbooks include What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand Press), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press), In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh), Wordly Pleasures (Word Tech), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon UP), Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press), My Father's Kites (Steel Toe Books), Trace Particles (Backbone Press), Little Epiphanies (Imaginary Friend Press), and Multitudes (forthcoming, Word Tech Communications). Her awards include fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences, the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Emerson College and Ploughshares, the 2009 Aquarius Press Legacy Award, the 2012 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the 2014 Paladin Award from RHINO for "extraordinary longtime contribution to poetry in Illinois," and an honorary doctorate from Kenyon College in 2014.
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I’m getting far too deft at elegies, at details that would force a poet’s hand beyond...
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No child will have our poor vision, no girl–rawboned and gaptoothed, no...
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My beloved husband says, no poems about poems, declaring them as useful as rhubarb, which was a...
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The bru in you is brutal: manic storms, guttural winds, deluges of ice and harm, dingy snow that...
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I thank you each day for freedom from the toxic spills of divorce, plagues of confrontation and...
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