Jacqueline Osherow (born 1956) is an American poet, and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah.^[1]

Biography

Raised in Philadelphia, Jacqueline Osherow graduated from Radcliffe College with a BA magna cum laude, and from Princeton University with a PhD.^[2] At Harvard, she was part of the Harvard Lampoon.^[3] Her specialty is love poetry and Biblical poetry^[4] and she has been featured in Best American Poetry.^[5]

Writing in a 1999 article for the Poetry Society of America, Osherow said, “If I write out of a specific poetic tradition, it is the Jewish poetic tradition, American poet though I am.”^[6] Her work has appeared in The New Criterion,^[7] The Jewish Daily Forward,^[8] The Yale Review,^[9] and many other journals and quarterlies. Additionally, she has been anthologized in Twentieth Century American Poetry (2003), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (2005), Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and has twice been included in Best American Poetry.^[10]

Awards

• 1990 Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
• 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship

Works

Poetry collections

• Looking for Angels in New York, University of Georgia Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-8203-1059-6
• Conversations with Survivors, University of Georgia Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8203-1612-3
• With a Moon in Transit. Grove Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8021-1599-7.
• Dead Men's Praise. Grove Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8021-3654-1.
• The Hoopoe's Crown. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2005. ISBN 978-1-929918-72-0.
• Whitethorn: Poems. LSU Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8071-3835-9.
• Ultimatum from Paradise: Poems. LSU Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-8071-5806-7.
• My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple: Poems. LSU Press. 2019. ISBN 978-0-8071-6944-5.

Anthologies

• Jonathan N. Barron; Eric Murphy Selinger, eds. (2000). "Scattered Psalms XI". Jewish American poetry: poems, commentary, and reflections. UPNE. ISBN 978-1-58465-043-0.
• Jay Parini, ed. (2005). The Wadsworth anthology of poetry. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-4130-0473-1.
• Charles Adés Fishman, ed. (2007). Blood to remember: American poets on the Holocaust. Time Being Books. ISBN 978-1-56809-112-9.

Non-fiction

• Sharon Bryan; William Olsen, eds. (2003). "Reading Poetry". Planet on the table: poets on the reading life. Sarabande Books. ISBN 978-1-889330-91-4.
• Peter S. Hawkins; Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, eds. (2006). "Honey and Milk Underneath Your Tongue". Scrolls of love: Ruth and the Song of songs. Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-2572-9.