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Joseph loves language, making it her slippery passion in poems about childhood griefs and fashion faux pas, movie musicals and empty airports, “rules” for writing and rules for reading. 1997. Funny, but never flippant, and always forthcoming about the author's own flaws and foibles, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman is sure to keep readers entranced, entertained, and enlightened.Corporal Muse
ISBN: 194397750X OCLC: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC 2018 In Corporal Muse, poet Allison E.

Joseph pulls back the curtain on her writing process, searching for (and finding) The Muse in unexpected places. —Judges’ Comment, Feathered Quill Book AwardsConfessions of a Barefaced Woman
ISBN: 1597096091 OCLC: Red Hen Press 2018 The poems in Allison Joseph's latest collection are smart, shameless, and empowered confessions of the best kind.

She teaches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and is Director of the Young Writers Workshop at SIUC, which she founded in 1999: a four-day summer program for high school students. She lives in Carbondale, Illinois. Carnegie Mellon University Press. An articulate participant within the court of public opinion, she does not stand to the side and carp.

Mayapple Press. All hail this bounty, this Lexicon!My Father's Kites
ISBN: 098241692X OCLC: Steel Toe Books, ©2010. Here are some of them:

  • 2020 Winner of the Independent Press Award, Small Book Category for Smart Pretender
  • 1992 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
  • 2009 Aquarius Press Legacy Award
  • 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

Her Published Books

Allison Joseph has written many collections of poems.

Full-Length Poetry Books

  • Confessions of a Barefaced Woman. Red Hen Press.

    allison joseph biography

    ISBN 978-0-8229-3994-8. 

  • What Keeps Us Here. The centerpiece of Allison Joseph's sixth full-length poetry collection is a sequence of thirty-four sonnets about losing her father. 2010. She lives in Carbondale, Illinois.

    Honors and awards


  • 1992 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
  • 2009 Aquarius Press Legacy Award
  • 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
  • Full-length poetry collections

  • My Father's Kites: Poems.

    (2000).

    Allison Joseph facts for kids

    Allison Joseph, born in 1967, is an American poet, editor, and teacher. In 1995, she was one of the founding editors of Crab Orchard Review as the magazine's poetry editor and has also worked as editor-in-chief since August 2001. A collection of poetry by Allison Joseph.Lexicon
    ISBN: 1597097179 OCLC: Red Hen Press 2021 Lexicon is a worthy successor to Allison Joseph’s award-winning breakthrough, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman.

    2003. Steel Toe Books. . Joseph finds joy in the most unlikely of places, and in Lexicon, her adoration for the written word lets us see those places in sharp and evocative relief. Corporal Muse is a cross-section of poetic technique so strong it conjures The Muse to wherever the reader holds this book.Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)
    ISBN: 0887483860 OCLC: Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh : 2003.