Eagle Pond Authors’ Series Presents: A Reading and Book-signing with Allison Joseph

​NAACP Image Award in Poetry finalist, poet and editor Allison Joseph will read from her most recent poetry collections Lexicon and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, both from Red Hen Press, as well as from newer work. Of the poems in Lexicon, Lee-Ann Roripaugh writes that they “hum, croon, and belt out their refrains with heartbreaking candor, shimmer, and sashay–revealing a poet so deft with form that she can easily code-shift between violence and ecstasy, side-eye and wit, lyric torch song and funk.” Jim Daniels praises Confessions of a Barefaced Woman: “Whether the subject is African-American hair, the purchase of a first bra, junk food, or liars, or people such as Rick James, Dorothy Parker, Grace Jones, or that Other Allison, she tackles them all here with refreshing clarity and candor. If she has any more confessions, I want to hear them.”​Website:  allisonjosephpoetry.com

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Allison Joseph lives, teaches, and writes in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University. Her most recent collections of poetry include Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press), winner of the Feathered Quill Book Award and finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, Lexicon (Red Hen Press), winner of the Poetry by the Sea Best Book Award for 2021. Her newest chapbooks include Professional Happiness (Backbone Press), Any Proper Weave (Kelsey Books) and Speak and Spell (forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press). She is the widow of the late poet and editor Jon Tribble.