American poet
Jena Osman is an American poet and editor, who graduated from Brown University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo, with a Ph.D. She teaches at Temple University.[1]
Biography
Osman's work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Conjunctions,[2] Hambone, Verse, and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics.
With Juliana Spahr, she founded and edited Chain. She has been a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and Chateau de la Napoule. She inspired the start of Hyphen magazine.[3]
In her ongoing project, "Court Reports," Osman worked directly from court records, judicial opinions bearing the stamp and influence of Charles Reznikoff.[4]
Awards
Works
- The Network. Fence Books. 2010. ISBN 978-1-934200-40-7.
- "flag of my disposition"; "hurrah for positive science", 5 Trope
- "THE PERIODIC TABLE AS ASSEMBLED BY DR. ZHIVAGO, OCULIST", Zhivago, 2002-3
- An Essay in Asterisks. Roof Books. 2004. ISBN 978-1-931824-10-1.
- The Character. Beacon Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8070-6848-9.
- Jury. Meow Press. 1996.
- Amblyopia. Avenue B. 1993. ISBN 978-0-939691-09-8.
- Twelve Parts of Her. Burning Deck Press. 1989. ISBN 978-1-886224-48-3.
Anthologies
References
- ^ "Temple English: Jena Osman". Archived from the original on 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
- ^ "Conjunctions:35, American Poetry: States of the Art". www.conjunctions.com. Archived from the original on 2001-06-20.
- ^ "Hyphen's mantra : The Temple News". Archived from the original on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ^ "Legal Affairs".
- ^ "Pew Fellowships in the Arts Announces the 2006 Award Recipients". 13 July 2006.
- ^ "The Best American Poetry 2002, Guest Edited by Robert Creeley".
External links
- Jena Osman Website
- "Jena Osman", Penn Sound
- Faculty Homepage at Temple University
- Jena Osman and violist/composer Nadia Sirota interview each other in InDigest
