Allison Joseph lives, writes, and teaches in Carbondale, IL, where she's on the faculty of Southern Illinois University. Her latest books are Lexicon (Red Hen Press), winner of the Best Book of the Year Award from the Poetry by the Sea Conference), Any Proper Weave (Kelsay Books), and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry). She is the widow of the late poet and editor Jon Tribble.

Other poems by Allison Joseph in Verse Daily:
January 9, 2017:   "Raise" "I need a safe house everywhere I go...."
August 28, 2021:   "Why I'm a Terrible Bed and Breakfast Patron" "I'm always afraid I'll break the antiques..."
September 30, 2020:   "To All the Clocks I've Killed" "Sorry little timepieces all in a row..."
March 4, 2019:   "To Sylvia" "Mistress of the miserable..."
September 22, 2018:   "The Liars" "How I admire their skills..."
March 30, 2018:   "Show Off" "Come flaunt your imperfections..."
October 14, 2016:   "Multitudes" "I'm a big city girl and a small town woman..."
December 4, 2015:   "Sidewalks" "Why should I be the one who walks afraid..."

Books by Allison Joseph:

Other poems on the web by Allison Joseph:
"Soul Train"
"Play"
"Little Epiphanies"
Six poems
Two poems
Four poems
Twenty poems
Two poems
"On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person"
"Running While Black"
Five poems

Allison Joseph's Website.

Allison Joseph on Twitter.

About Any Proper Weave:

"Joseph is one of our most circumspect poets, even as she takes up our most nettlesome issues. Her work is profoundly humanistic — but she seems wary of the impulse to assume a position of moral superiority . . . but her tonal poise and patience evoke a person who lives among and close by the hurts and blunders even as she critiques them. An articulate participant within the court of public opinion, she does not stand to the side and carp."
—Ron Slate