Career and work Alicia Ostriker

alicia ostriker howling: remembering allen ginsberg.

ostriker s books of nonfiction explore many of same themes manifest in verse. include writing woman (1983), explores poems of sylvia plath, anne sexton, h.d., may swenson , adrienne rich, , nakedness of fathers: biblical visions , revisions (1994), approaches torah midrashic sensibility. wrote introduction giannina braschi s empire of dreams, postmodern poetry classic of spanish caribbean (1994).

ostriker’s sixth collection of poems, imaginary lover (1986), won william carlos williams award of poetry society of america. crack in (1996) national book award finalist, , won paterson poetry award , san francisco state poetry center award. little space: poems selected , new, 1968–1998 1998 national book award finalist.

ostriker’s recent nonfiction book love of god (2007), work continues midrash exploration of biblical texts begun feminist revision , bible (1993) , nakedness of fathers: biblical visions , revisions (1994). dancing @ devil’s party (2000) examines work of poets william blake , walt whitman maxine kumin. in introduction book, disagrees w. h. auden’s assertion poetry makes nothing happen. poetry, ostriker writes, can tear @ heart claws, make neural nets shiver, flood hope, despair, longing, ecstasy, love, anger, terror[.]”

ostriker s poems have appeared in wide variety of periodicals, including new yorker, nation, poetry, american poetry review, paris review, atlantic, yale review, kenyon review, iowa review, shenandoah review, antaeus, colorado review, denver quarterly, boulevard, poetry east, new england review, santa monica review, triquarterly review, seneca review, ms, ontario review, bridges, tikkun, prairie schooner, gettysburg review, lyric, fence, ploughshares.

a variety of ostriker s poems have been translated italian, french, german, spanish, chinese, japanese, hebrew , arabic. stealing language has been translated japanese , published in japan.

honors, fellowships, , awards

1964-5 american association of university women fellowship
1966 rutgers university research council summer scholar grant
1967 american foundation advancement of humanities younger scholar grant
1974, 1976, 1985, 1997, 2000 macdowell colony fellow
1976-7 national foundation arts fellowship in poetry
1977 breadloaf writers conference fellowship, 1977
1977 new jersey arts council award in poetry, 1977
1979 dream of springtime selected 1 of best small press titles i
1982 rockefeller foundation fellowship research in humanities
1984-5 guggenheim foundation fellowship poetry, 1984-5
1986 strousse poetry prize, prairie schooner, 1986
1986 poetry society of america william carlos williams prize imaginary lover
1987 rutgers university trustees award excellence in research
1987 djerassi foundation resident, summer
1992 new jersey arts council award in poetry
1994 edward stanley award, poems published in prairie schooner
1994 judah magnes jewish museum, berkeley, anna david rosenberg award poems on jewish experience. first prize eighth , thirteenth.
1995 rutgers university faculty of arts , sciences award distinguished contributors undergraduate education
1995-6 fellow, rutgers center historical analysis
1996-7 associate fellow, rutgers center historical analysis
1996 crack in finalist national book award
1996 poem in best american poetry
1996 poem inyearbook of american poetry
1997 paterson poetry prize crack in everything
1998 san francisco state poetry center award crack in everything
1998 readers’ choice award poems published in prairie schooner
1998 little space finalist national book award
1999 little space finalist lenore marshall prize, academy of american poets
i999 february residency @ villa serbelloni, bellagio study , conference center, italy
1999 poem in pushcart prize anthology
2000 san diego women’s institute continuing jewish education: endowment award
2001 (fall) visiting fellowship, clare hall, cambridge
2002 larry levis prize poems published in prairie schooner
2003 best american essays notable essay “milk.”
2003 geraldine r. dodge foundation fellow
2007 anderbo poetry prize distinguished poem
2008 outstanding academic title, choice june 2008, for love of god.
2010 national jewish book award in poetry book of seventy
2010 prairie schooner virginia faulkner award excellence in writing, poems published in summer 2009 issue.
2010 paterson award sustained literary achievement book of seventy
2011 named in list of “10 great jewish poets” in moment




^ ploughshares: author detail/ostriker, boston, april 23, 2009
^ kuebler, carolyn, review of contemporary fiction, spring 1994
^ whitman, ruth, jewish women s archive, comprehensive historical encyclopedia [1]
^ ostriker, alicia, critical inquiry, vol. 13, no. 3, politics , poetic value (spring, 1987), pp. 579-596