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 can't deny the urge to writ…

- 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 reading experience. So I striv…

- Allison Joseph

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

- Allison Joseph

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

- Allison Joseph

I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take center stage in my own creations. The trick …

- Allison Joseph

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

- 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 figures like Bo…

- 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 with this!"

- 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