Along with UConn Creative Writing, the Center is co-sponsoring a poetry reading on Wednesday, November 11 at 6:00 PM, at the UConn Co-Op Bookstore in Storrs Center.
Jacqueline Osherow received her BA from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and her PhD from Princeton University. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including “Hoopoe’s Crown” (2005). Her debut collection, “Looking for Angels in New York” (1988), was chosen for the Contemporary Poetry Series. She has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, several prizes from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. She is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.
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