Jacqueline Osherow

Jacqueline Osherow (born 1956) is an American poet, and Distinguished Professor at University of Utah.^[1]

Biography

She was raised in Philadelphia. She graduated from Radcliffe College with a BA magna cum laude, and from Princeton University with a PhD.^[2] At Harvard, she was part of the Harvard Lampoon.

Her work appeared in The Jewish Daily Forward,^[3] and The Yale Review.^[4]

Awards

• 1990 Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
• 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship

Works

• Looking for Angels in New York, University of Georgia Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-8203-1059-6
• Conversations with Survivors, University of Georgia Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8203-1612-3
• With a Moon in Transit. Grove Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8021-1599-7.
• Dead Men's Praise. Grove Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8021-3654-1.
• The Hoopoe's Crown. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2005. ISBN 978-1-929918-72-0.
• Whitethorn: Poems. LSU Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8071-3835-9.

Anthologies

• Jonathan N. Barron, Eric Murphy Selinger, eds. (2000). "Scattered Psalms XI". Jewish American poetry: poems, commentary, and reflections. UPNE. ISBN 978-1-58465-043-0.
• Charles Adés Fishman, ed. (2007). Blood to remember: American poets on the Holocaust. Time Being Books. ISBN 978-1-56809-112-9.
• Jay Parini, ed. (2005). The Wadsworth anthology of poetry. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-4130-0473-1.

Non-fiction

• Peter S. Hawkins, Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, eds. (2006). "Honey and Milk Underneath Your Tongue". Scrolls of love: Ruth and the Song of songs. Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-2572-9.
• Sharon Bryan, William Olsen, eds. (2003). "Reading Poetry". Planet on the table: poets on the reading life. Sarabande Books. ISBN 978-1-889330-91-4.

References

1. http://english.utah.edu/?module=facultyDetails&personId=22&orgId=297
2. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jacqueline-osherow
3. http://www.forward.com/articles/128110/
4. http://www.cstone.net/~poems/yalerosh.htm

External links

• "Q & A: American Poetry - Jacqueline Osherow", Poetry Society of America
• Todd F. Davis, Kenneth Womack, eds. (2001). "Poets of Testimony". Mapping the ethical turn: a reader in ethics, culture, and literary theory. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2056-6.