Background
Aleshire, Joan Allan was born on March 18, 1938 in Baltimore. Daughter of Warde Baunton and Angelica Peale (Iglehart) Allan.
(In this moving book of elegies, the dead mingle with the ...)
In this moving book of elegies, the dead mingle with the living. Multiple narratives weave themselves together in these poems, like streams running downhill outside the rooms of human ghosts. Aleshire writes of a loved (lost) one: ‘Do you expect me/ to lead? You turned to me once on the highway,/ hiking from the stranded plane.// I did, I do--I don't know how/ to answer absence, except by this/ attachment to the tangible, or: desire.’
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creative writing educator poet
Aleshire, Joan Allan was born on March 18, 1938 in Baltimore. Daughter of Warde Baunton and Angelica Peale (Iglehart) Allan.
AB, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960. Master of Fine Arts, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, 1980.
Faculty member Warren Wilson College, since 1983. Founder, co-president Shrewsbury Library., Cuttingsville, Vermont, since 1975. Interim director Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina, 1982—1984, Swannanoa, 1987, Swannanoa, 93.
Lecturer, scholar Vermont Council On Humanities, Hyde Park, 1978—1995.
(In this moving book of elegies, the dead mingle with the ...)
Member Amnesty International, since 1976. Trustee, library Shrewsbury Library., Cuttingsville, since 1975. Board member Hayes Foundation, Wallingford, since 1980.
1 child from previous marriage Anne.