Jacqueline Osherow

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

Biography

Raised in Philadelphia, Jacqueline Osherow 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.^[3] Her specialty is love poetry and Biblical poetry^[4] and she has been featured in Best American Poetry.^[5]

Writing in a 1999 article for the Poetry Society of America, Osherow said, “If I write out of a specific poetic tradition, it is the Jewish poetic tradition, American poet though I am.”^[6] Her work has appeared in The New Criterion,^[7]The Jewish Daily Forward,^[8]The Yale Review,^[9] and many other journals and quarterlies. Additionally, she has been anthologized in Twentieth Century American Poetry (2003), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (2005), Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and has twice been included in Best American Poetry.^[10]

Awards

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

Works

Poetry collections

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.
Ultimatum from Paradise: Poems. LSU Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-8071-5806-7.
My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple: Poems. LSU Press. 2019. ISBN 978-0-8071-6944-5.

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.
Jay Parini, ed. (2005). The Wadsworth anthology of poetry. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-4130-0473-1.
Charles Adés Fishman, ed. (2007). Blood to remember: American poets on the Holocaust. Time Being Books. ISBN 978-1-56809-112-9.

Non-fiction

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.
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.

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References

↑ "Department of English - the University of Utah".
↑ "Jacqueline Osherow". 24 July 2021.
↑ Fabrizio, Doug (December 1, 2015). "A Conversation with Jackie Osherow". KUER. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
↑ "'You Hearted Me': Why love is both visceral and eternal". Canadian Broadcast Company. CBC. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
↑ Dirda, Michael (January 2, 2019). ""How do you define authenticity? A poetry collection explores a modern problem"". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
↑ "Q & A American Poetry: Jacqueline Osherow".
↑ "Sightings: Northern Flicker by Jacqueline Osherow".
↑ "Two Poems by Jacqueline Osherow".
↑ "Poetry Daily Feature: Jacqueline Osherow - the Yale Review". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
↑ "Poetry Foundation: Jacqueline Osherow".

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.

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[1] "Department of English - the University of Utah".

[2] "Jacqueline Osherow". 24 July 2021.

[3] Fabrizio, Doug (December 1, 2015). "A Conversation with Jackie Osherow". KUER. Retrieved 16 January 2023.

[4] "'You Hearted Me': Why love is both visceral and eternal". Canadian Broadcast Company. CBC. Retrieved 16 January 2023.

[5] Dirda, Michael (January 2, 2019). ""How do you define authenticity? A poetry collection explores a modern problem"". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 January 2023.

[6] "Q & A American Poetry: Jacqueline Osherow".

[7] "Sightings: Northern Flicker by Jacqueline Osherow".

[8] "Two Poems by Jacqueline Osherow".

[9] "Poetry Daily Feature: Jacqueline Osherow - the Yale Review". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-06-29.

[10] "Poetry Foundation: Jacqueline Osherow".

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