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… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
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… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
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… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
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… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
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… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I think that the people who really accomplish things in this world have to have a little bit of crazy in them. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
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… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
