POET
Alicia Ostriker (1937 - )
BIOGRAPHY
Alicia Ostriker, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, has published 11 volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven. Her most recent prose book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. She has received awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. Ostriker lives in Princeton, NJ, is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, and teaches in the low-residency Poetry MFA program of New England College.POEMS
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.
The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz
AUDIO
Poems of the Day
Boil
Daffodils
Matisse, Too
Mother/Child: Coda
Nude Descending
The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz
The Window, at the Moment of Flame
Poetry Off the Shelf
What's a Man Doing in a Feminist Poem?
Listening to the work of Alicia Ostriker.
ARTICLES BY ALICIA OSTRIKER
“If the Psalms Aren’t Poetry, They’re Useless”
Two poets of different faiths come together over the Bible’s most celebrated lyrics.
BOOKS
No Heaven
(University of Pittsburgh Press)
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