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"A Reading of Jewish Poems: Alhambra, Eremitaggio, the Krishna Temple"

Jacqueline Osherow, University of Utah
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
4:00-5:30 PM
2022 Thayer 202 S. Thayer Map
Professor Jacqueline Osherow intends to read from her newest work, in which she attempts to engage -- after more than thirty years of writing many poems with Jewish preoccupations-- with elements from other religions. With the help of anything from architecture to chant to chance remark to rumor, Professor Osherow has been actively working to imagine other religious orientations, always -- inevitably -- from a profoundly Jewish perspective. The results, she thinks, are quintessentially Jewish poems.

Jacqueline Osherow is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Ultimatum from Paradise is (LSU Press, 2014). She’s received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters , as well as a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, journals and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, the Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, The Longman Anthology of Poetry, Best American Poetry, The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Literature, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Twentieth Century American Poetry and The Making of a Poem. She’s Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah.

Sponsored by Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Zell Visiting Writers Series.

Image courtesy of Heather Zahn Gardner

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.
Building: 202 S. Thayer
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Jewish Studies, Poetry, Talk
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program, Zell Visiting Writers Series