Alluring Quote by Allison Joseph

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

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

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

— Allison Joseph

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

— Allison Joseph

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

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

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

— Allison Joseph

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

— Allison Joseph

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

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

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

— Allison Joseph

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