Alicia Ostriker

Poet, critic, and activist Alicia Ostriker has published numerous volumes of poetry, including The Book of Seventy (2009), which received the Jewish National Book Award. Other books of poetry include No Heaven (2005), The Volcano Sequence (2002), Little Space (1998), The Crack in Everything (1996), and The Imaginary Lover (1986). Ostriker’s poetry and criticism investigates themes of family, social justice, Jewish identity, and personal growth.

Her books of criticism include For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book (2009), Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic (2000), and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America (1983).

Ostriker has received awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim, and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. She is professor emerita of English at Rutgers University.

This event takes place in the Clowes Hall Krannert Room