Allison is a poet and currently resides in Ithaca NY.
Author's posts
Dec 18 2024
Detention: Book Club, Where the Cool Kids go to Read.
- By Allison Barrett in Featured, Storytelling News
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December 18, 2024
At my high school, we didn’t have detention, we had trash pick-up. You walked around at lunch with a plastic bucket and a claw grabber. The goal was to have us sheepishly collect litter in the bushes, banished from our peers, but the custom was to go up to groups of kids and hold out …
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Aug 15 2015
A Month Of… Boundaries – a poem
- By Allison Barrett in A Month Of, Featured
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August 15, 2015
Windthrow Rare on Established Specimens
No wonder it’s called milk thistle, that purple
bauble with its auriole of thorns. Milk is prickling
in me again– letdown, they call it.
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