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Allison Joseph Biography

Allison Joseph (born 1967) is an American poet, editor and professor. She is author of six poetry collections, most recently, My Father's Kites: Poems (Steel Toe Books, 2010).

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It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book accepted for publication. It's great to see poets with persistence succeed.

Book, Fun, Grow, Moving, Poets

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something with this!"

Bad, Forget, Say, Should, Writing

Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of the written word. But for me the urge toward poetry, that seductive feeling of being swept away by words, was enough for me to overcome that fear that my experiences weren't worthy of poetry itself.

Away, Cities, Immigrant, Seductive, Worry, Written

Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.

Confrontation, Death, Died, Elegy, Ideas

I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim.

Father, Grim, Hide, Life, Lived

I think that the people who really accomplish things in this world have to have a little bit of crazy in them.

Crazy, People, Think, Thinking, World

Social media is alluring, tempting, frustrating, etc. We mistake our interactions in social media as community, but is community possible when you don't even know what someone looks like or what his or her voice sounds like? I've enjoyed connecting with a lot of poets through social media, but do I truly know them if I haven't even met them yet?

Alluring, Media, Mistake, Social, Voice

I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world
national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me that I can't deny the urge to write about such events. It takes me a while to gather the evidence, you know?

Events, Evident, Gather, Takes, World, Writing

I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about figures like Borges, Akhmatova, Neruda, etc. I felt I needed a bigger lens to see poetry through. It really helps to see poetry as a world language, and not just something American.

Akhmatova, American, Contemporary, Etc, Lenses, World

I write when I can. I have no set writing practices, or times, or methods. I write when I'm not doing other things - in the odd times when I'm traveling, or in hotels, or when I get time to be alone with my thoughts.

Odd, Practice, Thoughts, Times, Writing

I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm always on the lookout for teaching poems - poems that inspire me and my students to write poems in response.

Class, Lookout, Make, Teaching, Together, Writing

In terms of what I write about, I consider no subject too small. Often it's the small moments, that through the amplification of poetry, reveal the larger, more profound truths that we all come to recognize and treasure.

Amplification, Poetry, Profound, Treasure, Writing

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

Free, Speak, Swings, Way, Ways

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