Allison Joseph Explained

Allison Joseph
Birth Place:	London, England
Occupation:	Poet, educator
Education:	Kenyon College Indiana University
Nationality:	American

Allison Joseph (born 1967) is an American poet, editor and professor. She is author of eight full-length poetry collections, most recently, Confessions of a Bare-Faced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018).

Biography

Born in London, England, to parents of Jamaican heritage, Allison Joseph grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the Bronx, New York.^[1] She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A., and from Indiana University with an M.F.A. She teaches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), and is Director of the Young Writers Workshop at SIUC, which she founded in 1999: a four-day summer program for high school students. Many of SIUC's creative writing faculty and graduate students are involved with the workshop, and the student participants come from several states.^{[2] [3]} In 1995, she was one of the founding editors of Crab Orchard Review as the magazine's poetry editor and has worked as editor-in-chief since August 2001. She is also the publisher and founder of No Chair Press.^[4] She lives in Carbondale, Illinois. Joseph will be teaching at the Poetry Seminar for The Frost Place in August 2021.

For more than thirty years, Joseph was married to fellow poet Jon Tribble, with whom she co-founded Crab Orchard Review. Tribble died in October 2019.^[5]

Honors and awards

• 2020 Winner of the Independent Press Award, Small Book Category for Smart Pretender (Finishing Line Press, 2019)^[6]
• 1992 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
• 2009 Aquarius Press Legacy Award ^[7]
• Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council
• Breadloaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
• Sewanee Writers' Conference Fellowship
• Academy of American Poets prize
• Ruth Lilly Fellowship
• Associated Writing Programs Prize

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

• Confessions of a Barefaced Woman. Red Hen Press. 2018. .
• Book: My Father's Kites: Poems. Steel Toe Books. 2010. 978-0-9824169-2-1 .
• Book: Voice: Poems. Mayapple Press. 2009. 978-0-932412-75-1 .
• Book: Imitation of life: poems. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2003. 978-0-88748-386-8 .
• Book: Soul Train . Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1997. 978-0-88748-247-2 .
• Book: In Every Seam . University of Pittsburgh Press. 1997. 978-0-8229-3994-8 .
• Book: What Keeps Us Here . Ampersand . 1992 . 978-0-935331-11-0 . registration .
• Book: Worldly Pleasures . WordTech Communications. 2004. 978-1-932339-12-3 .

Chapbook collections

• The Last Human Heart. Diode Editions, 2020. .
• Smart Pretender. Finishing Line Press, 2019. .
• Corporal Muse. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018. .

Anthology publications

• New Sister Voices: Poetry by American Women of African Descent
• Book: Boomer Girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation . Pamela Gemin . Paula Sergi. University of Iowa Press. 1999. 978-0-87745-687-2. registration.
• Book: American Poetry: the next generation . Gerald Costanzo . Jim Daniels. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2000. 978-0-88748-343-1. registration.

External links

• No Chair Press
• The Rondeau Roundup
• "UNBLINKING" Interview with Allison Joseph by Marilyn Davis, Interview: Perspectives, Spring 2003.
• "An Interview with Allison Joseph". Interview: Blackbird, January 13, 2006.
• Kendra Hamilton Interviews Allison Joseph, Callaloo, Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996, pp. 461–472
• Poems: "Conservative Love in the Age of Obama", Starting Today, March 6, 2009
• Little Epiphanies by Allison Joseph. Poem: Valparisio Poetry Review
• Author Page: Mayapple Press - Allison Joseph
• A Reading by Allison Joseph. Audio Reading: Blackbird Archive.

Notes and References

1. Web site: "Allison Joseph Continues Fall Poetry Series", Columbia College, Chicago, October 23, 2003. . July 26, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141212134536/http://blogs.colum.edu/press-releases/2003/10/23/allison-joseph-continues-fall-poetry-series/ . December 12, 2014 . dead .
2. Web site: Interview: Perspectives - Spring 2003 - UNBLINKING Interview with Allison Joseph by Marilyn Davis . November 7, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090614092555/http://perspect.siuc.edu/03_sp/joseph.html . June 14, 2009 . dead .
3. https://www.angelfire.com/il/yww/ Young Writers Workshop Homepage
4. Web site: No Chair Press . About the Publisher . November 28, 2017.
5. Web site: Jon Tribble. 2020-09-27. The Southern. 9 October 2019 . en.
6. Web site: Independent Press Award announces the 2020 Winners . Independent Press Award . 2020-05-29.
7. News: Allison Joseph wins Aquarius Press Legacy Award . August 20, 2009 . Andrea Hahn . The Saluki Times . November 7, 2009 . https://archive.today/20120718184931/http://news.siuc.edu/news/August09/082009amh9152.html . July 18, 2012 . dead .