Jena Osman

Jena Osman is an American poet and editor, who graduated from Brown University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo, with a Ph.D. She teaches at Temple University.[1] Osman's work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Conjunctions,[2] Hambone, Verse, and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics.

Jena Osman
BornPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationPoet
Editor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University
University at Buffalo
GenrePoetry

With Juliana Spahr, she founded and edited Chain. She has been a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and Chateau de la Napoule. She inspired the start of Hyphen magazine.[3]

In her ongoing project, "Court Reports," Osman worked directly from court records, judicial opinions bearing the stamp and influence of Charles Reznikoff.[4]

Awards

Works
  • The Network. Fence Books. 2010. ISBN 978-1-934200-40-7.
  • "flag of my disposition"; "hurrah for positive science", 5 Trope
  • "THE PERIODIC TABLE AS ASSEMBLED BY DR. ZHIVAGO, OCULIST", Zhivago, 2002-3
  • An Essay in Asterisks. Roof Books. 2004. ISBN 978-1-931824-10-1.
  • The Character. Beacon Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8070-6848-9.
  • Jury. Meow Press. 1996.
  • Amblyopia. Avenue B. 1993. ISBN 978-0-939691-09-8.
  • Twelve Parts of Her. Burning Deck Press. 1989. ISBN 978-1-886224-48-3.

Anthologies

Reviews

Now we have Jena Osman’s new book, An Essay in Asterisks, which I necessarily read with a more open mind, but I do think this is a much richer book than The Character, more generous in its pleasures. Here she is again probing consciousness and politics and language in a variety of inventive ways. These tricks might be called wordplay but the end is anything but playful.[7]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2009-07-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. http://www.conjunctions.com/conj35.htm
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2009-07-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/September-October-2005/review_skeel_sepoct05.msp
  5. http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=24152
  6. http://www.bestamericanpoetry.com/archive/?id=16
  7. Kathleen Ossip. "Review of Jena Osman". Verse.
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