St. Louis Poetry Center Workshop with Allison Joseph

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Allison Joseph

Allison Joseph

St. Louis Poetry Center’s signature program, the Sunday poetry workshop, for January 20 will be held 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. at the Regional Arts Commission and will feature as critic Allison Joseph. Free parking in the Pageant and Metrolink lots; Metered parking on Delmar is free on Sundays.

Allison Joseph lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University. She serves as poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review. Her books and chapbooks include What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand Press), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press), In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press), Worldly Pleasures (Word Tech Communications), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon UP), Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press), My Father's Kites (Steel Toe Books), Trace Particles (Backbone Press), Little Epiphanies (NightBallet Press), Mercurial (Mayapple Press), Mortal Rewards (White Violet Press), Multitudes (Word Poetry), The Purpose of Hands (Glass Lyre Press), Double Identity (Singing Bone Press) Corporal Muse (Sibling Rivalry Press, forthcoming) and What Once You Loved (Barefoot Muse Press). Her most recent full-length collection, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, was published by Red Hen Press in June 2018. She is the literary partner and wife of poet and editor Jon Tribble.

Workshops are held the third Sunday of each month, September through April, except for December. The guest poet critic will lead the workshop and provide critique on a selection of pre-submitted poems. All poems submitted will receive written comments. Workshops are free and open to the public.

For more information on attending or submitting poems for the workshop, look at the website: http://stlouispoetrycenter.org/workshops/.