Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Poet Allison Joseph to present final Spring 2006 RopeWalk Reading Series
 Poet Allison Joseph will present the final reading in the Spring 2006 RopeWalk Reading Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 27, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center.Joseph is the Judge William Holmes Cook Endowed Professor in English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is the author of five collections of poetry: What Keeps Us Here, winner of the 1992 Ampersand Press Women Poets Series Competition; Worldly Pleasures, 2003 winner of the Word Press Poetry Prize; Soul Train, In Every Seam, and Imitation of Life. Her work also has appeared in numerous anthologies including American Poetry: The Next Generation. She was featured on NPR's “Morning Edition” reading her poem “Kitchen” from Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets do Housework. Her honors include the John C. Zacharis First Book Prize; fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences; and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry. She is editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review and director of the Young Writers Workshop, an annual summer residential creative writing workshop for high school writers. She led the RopeWalk Winter Retreat poetry workshop in 2004 and has appeared at the RopeWalk Writers Retreat and the RopeWalk Reading Series as a guest reader. Presented by USI’s College of Liberal Arts, Joseph's RopeWalk Reading is made possible through the support of the USI Multicultural Center. The RopeWalk Reading Series also is supported by RopeWalk Writers Retreat, Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers’ Union. For more information, call 812/461-5381. |
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