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Allison Joseph

Author of In Every Seam

19+ Works 89 Members 0 Reviews

About the Author

Allison Joseph lives, writes, and teachers 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 former director of the show more Young Writers Workshop, a summer workshop for teen writers. show less

Image credit: Allison Joseph, by Wikipedia user "Mark Zip"

Series

Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series

Works by Allison Joseph

In Every Seam (1997) 17 copies

My Father's Kites (2010) 15 copies

Imitation of Life (2003) 12 copies

Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (2018) 9 copies

What Keeps Us Here: Poems (1992) 7 copies

Worldly Pleasures (2004) 4 copies

Soul Train (1997) 4 copies

Voice: Poems (2009) 4 copies

Lexicon (2021) 4 copies

Crab Orchard Review: Summer/Fall 2004 (Volume 9, Number 2) 2 copies

Crab Orchard Review: The In-Between Age Writers on Adolescence: Vol. 13 No. 2 (2008) 2 copies

Mercurial (2016) 2 copies

The Last Human Heart (2020) 1 copy

Crab Orchard Review Vol. 18 No. 1 Winter/Spring 2013 (2013) 1 copy

Trace Particles (2014) 1 copy

Double Identity (2016) 1 copy

Multitudes (2016) 1 copy

Surviving Artistry (2017) 1 copy

The Purpose of Hands (2016) 1 copy

Associated Works

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contributor — 176 copies

The Best American Poetry 2011 (2011) — Contributor — 86 copies

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Contributor — 28 copies

Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century (2002) — Contributor — 17 copies

When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Contributor — 11 copies

Bittersweet (1998) — Contributor — 10 copies

Onthebus No. 8 and 9 — Contributor — 6 copies

Humor Me: An Anthology of Humor by Writers of Color (2002) — Contributor — 4 copies

Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky (2016) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1967
Gender: female
Country (for map): USA
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Places of residence: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bronx, New York, USA
Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Education: Kenyon College (BA ∙ 1988)
Indiana University (MFA)
Relationships: Tribble, Jon (spouse)

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Lists

Poetry Corner (2)

Black Authors (2)

Female Author (2)

Best 21st Century Books (So Far) (1)

Favorite Recent Poetry: 1980-2022 (1)

Top Five Books of 2021 (1)

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Statistics

Works: 19
Also by: 9
Members: 89
Popularity: #207,492
Rating: 4.1

ISBNs: 22

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