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]

Biography[edit]

Osman's work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Conjunctions,^[2] Hambone, Verse, and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics.

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[edit]

• 2009 National Poetry Series
• 2006 Pew Fellowships^[5]
• 1998 Barnard Women Poets Prize
• National Endowment for the Arts grant
• the New York Foundation for the Arts grant
• The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant
• Fund for Poetry grant

Works[edit]

• 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[edit]

• The Best American Poetry 2002, (editor: Robert Creeley)^[6]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Jena Osman Website
• "Jena Osman", Penn Sound
• Faculty Homepage at Temple University
• Jena Osman and violist/composer Nadia Sirota interview each other in InDigest