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Alicia Ostriker
POETRY READING
Alicia Ostriker, Distinguished Poet
TUESDAY
March
18
7 p.m.
University of South Carolina
Law School Auditorium
Reception and book signing will follow
"Alicia Ostriker has become one of those brilliantly provocative and imaginatively gifted contemporaries
whose iconoclastic expression, whether in prose or poetry, is essential to understanding our American selves."
—Joyce Carol Oates
Alicia Ostriker, a poet and critic, has published fourteen volumes of poetry, including The Book of Life:
Selected Jewish Poems 1979-2011; No Heaven; The Volcano Sequence; and The Imaginary Lover, winner
of the William Carlos Williams Award. Her most recent work is, The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog
published this Spring. She was twice a National Book Award Finalist, for The Little Space (1998) and The
Crack in Everything (1996). She is known for her intelligence and passionate appraisal of women’s place
in literature, and for investigating themes of family, social justice, Jewish identity, and personal growth.
Ostriker’s poetry is at once moving and new, because it touches old and deep knowledge, and also opens
the heart and mind again.
SPONSORS
Office of the Provost Institute for Visiting Scholars
Women’s & Gender Studies Program • Department of English
Religious Studies • Jewish Studies • Jewish Community Center