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

Biography

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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

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Works

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Poetry collections

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  • 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

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Non-fiction

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References

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