Additional Reading for the Spring 2008 Schedule

The Carbondale Branch of the American Association of University Women
presents a poetry reading by
SIUC poet and professor Allison Joseph

February 13, 2008
SIUC Student Center Missouri Room, 6PM
Free and Open to the Public

Allison Joseph is the author of five collections of poetry: What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand Press, 1992), Soul Train (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1997), In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), Imitation of Life (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2003), and Worldly Pleasures (Word Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies such as Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers, and The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women. She has received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences.

A faculty member at SIUC since 1994, Allison serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review, SIUC’s national journal of creative works, and director of the Young Writers Workshop, an annual creative writing workshop held on the Carbondale campus each June for high school-aged writers.