I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should… — Allison Joseph Forget 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… — Allison Joseph American poetry Copy Share Image
Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing. — Allison Joseph Editing Copy Share Image
I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim. — Allison Joseph Father Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't… — Allison Joseph Big cities 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… — Allison Joseph Accepted 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 Accomplish Copy Share Image
Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died. — Allison Joseph Confrontation 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… — Allison Joseph Deny 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… — Allison Joseph Ends Copy Share Image
Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art. — Allison Joseph Ancient 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… — Allison Joseph Aspect Copy Share Image
I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give… — Allison Joseph Class Copy Share Image
I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take… — Allison Joseph Balance Copy Share Image
I write when I can. I have no set writing practices, or times, or methods. I write when I'm not doing other… — Allison Joseph Hotel Copy Share Image
Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza… — Allison Joseph Approach Copy Share Image
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak. — Allison Joseph Enjoy Copy Share Image
Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him… — Allison Joseph Character Copy Share Image
“Something about the turbulence of adolescence makes you want to do something creative...I thought as I got older I would stop writing… — Allison Joseph Black person Copy Share Image
In terms of what I write about, I consider no subject too small. Often it's the small moments, that through the amplification… — Allison Joseph Amplification 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… — Allison Joseph Alluring Copy Share Image
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph Affront Copy Share Image
