[Jewish] Poet Jacqueline Osherow to visit Hampshire November 6

[rrHACU at hampshire.edu]

Poet Jacqueline Osherow will hold an open class and reading on Thursday,
November 6th from 2-3:30 in FPH 104. We will be discussing poems from her
latest book, THE HOOPOE'S CROWN, as well as new work. The Hampshire community
is welcome. Osherow is a wonderful poet who frequently writes on Jewish themes.
About Jacqueline Osherow:
Jacqueline Osherow is the author of five books of poetry. Osherow has been
awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters, Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and a number of
prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in many
anthologies and journals, including Twentieth Century American Poetry, The
Wadsworth Anthology of Poety and The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American
Poetry, Best American Poetry (1995 and 1998), The New Breadloaf Anthology of
Contemporary American Poetry, The New Yorker, Paris Review and many others. She
is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah.
This visit is part of the Posen Foundation for the Study of Secular Jewish
History and Culture Visiting Writers Series. For further information contact
Rachel Rubinstein at x5821 or rrHACU at hampshire.edu


Rachel Rubinstein
Assistant Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies
School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies
Hampshire College
(413) 559-5821