Poet Alicia Ostriker to Visit USU

Poet Alicia Ostriker visits Utah State University Thursday, April 2, for two public events. At noon in Merrill-Cazier Library 101 she will participate in a panel discussion. At 7 p.m. in the Haight Alumni Center she will read from her work. Both events are free, and all are invited.

Ostriker is the 2009 May Swenson Visiting Poet, and her presentations are part of the Department of English Speakers Series, a part of the Caine School of the Arts.

 

Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. Twice nominated for a National Book Award, she is author of 11 volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven (2005). As a critic, Ostriker is the author of two pathbreaking volumes on women’s poetry, Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America. Her most recent critical book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics and the Erotic. She has also published three books on the Bible, Feminist Revision and the Bible, the controversial The Nakedness of the Fathers; Biblical Visions and Revisions, a combination of prose and poetry that re-imagines the Bible from the perspective of a contemporary Jewish woman, and most recently For the Love of God: the Bible as an Open Book.

 

The USU Department of English Speakers Series was established to promote the value of arts and humanities in American public life. The series features faculty writing and research accomplishments and noted visiting authors and scholars sharing their work. Next up is folklorist Polly Stewart who will present the 28th Annual Fife Folklore Honor Lecture. Titled “Urban Pioneers: Utah’s Homegrown Folk Music Revival of the 1960s,” the presentation takes place at noon, Thursday, April 9, at the USU Haight Alumni Center. For more information contact Marina Hall, (435) 797-3858, or email marina.hall@usu.edu.