INA, Ill. (Feb. 22, 2016) - A literary husband-and-wife duo will be stopping by Rend Lake College on Thursday, March 3 to share selections from their published works. Allison Joseph and Jon Tribble, both of Carbondale, will read excerpts at noon in the Pat Kern Private Dining Area. Afterward, they will be available for book signing.
| Allison Joseph | Jon Tribble |
Joseph is a part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. On the side, she also serves as an editor and poetry editor of the Crab Orchard Review, moderator of the Creative Writers Opportunities List, and director of the Young Writers Workshop - a summer writers’ workshop for teens.
Her list of published books and chapbooks is also extensive, spanning over two decades. Some of her works include What Keeps Us Here (1992), Soul Train (1997), In Every Seam (1997), Wordly Pleasures (2003), Imitation of Life (2003), Voice: Poems (2009), My Father's Kites (2010), Trace Particles (2014), Little Epiphanies (2015), and Mercurial (2016).
She has three upcoming publications, which include Multitudes by Word Tech Communications, The Purpose of Hands by Glass Lyre Press, and Mortal Rewards by White Violet Press.
Tribble serves as the managing editor of Crab Orchard Review and as series editor of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. He is the author of two upcoming books of poems: Natural State, to be published in 2016 by Glass Lyre Press; and And There Is Many a Good Thing, to be published in 2017 by Salmon Poetry.
In addition to his books, Tribble’s poetry has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Atticus Review, South Dakota Review, Connotation Review, and in anthologies such as the Jazz Poetry Anthology and Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate Icon. He has received fellowships and awards from the Illinois Arts Council.
Joseph and Tribble are sponsored by the RLC Liberal Arts Cultural Committee. For more information, contact the Liberal Arts Division at 618-437-5321, Ext. 1263.