Jena Osman is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

and editor, who graduated from Brown University, and the

State University of New York at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

, with a Ph.D. She teaches at

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then calle ...

. Osman's work has appeared in ''American Letters & Commentary'', ''Conjunctions'', ''Hambone'', ''Verse'', and ''XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics''. With

Juliana Spahr Juliana Spahr (born 1966) is an American poet, critic, and editor. She is the recipient of the 2009 Hardison Poetry Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and d ...

, she founded and edited ''Chain''. She has been a writing fellow at the

MacDowell Colony MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowel ...

, the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and Chateau de la Napoule. She inspired the start of ''Hyphen'' magazine. In her ongoing project, "Court Reports," Osman worked directly from court records, judicial opinions bearing the stamp and influence of

Charles Reznikoff Charles Reznikoff (August 31, 1894 – January 22, 1976) was an American poet best known for his long work, ''Testimony: The United States (1885–1915), Recitative'' (1934–1979). The term Objectivist was coined for him. The multi-volume ''Test ...

Awards

* 2009

National Poetry Series The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. Every year since 1979, the National Poetry Series has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry. Manuscripts are solicited through an annual open competition, judged and cho ...

* 2006 Pew Fellowships * 1998

Barnard Women Poets Prize The Barnard Women Poets Prize is a literary award in the United States for an English language book of poetry. From 1986 to 2001, the prize was a first-book award called the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Winners had their poetry book published und ...

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

grant * the New York Foundation for the Arts grant * The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant * Fund for Poetry grant

Works

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"flag of my disposition"; "hurrah for positive science", ''5 Trope''

"THE PERIODIC TABLE AS ASSEMBLED BY DR. ZHIVAGO, OCULIST", ''Zhivago'', 2002-3
* * * * *

Anthologies

* The Best American Poetry 2002, (editor:

Robert Creeley Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...

)

References

External links

Jena Osman Website

"Jena Osman", ''Penn Sound''

Jena Osman and violist/composer Nadia Sirota interview each other
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