A reading and book signing with poet, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, at Portsmouth Public Library
Renowned poet, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, will read from her most recent collection, No Heaven, and new, unpublished works, on Tuesday, May 13 at 7PM in the Levenson Community Room.
Of No Heaven (2005), Booklist said, ‘In her newest collection of clarion poems, intimate and worldly, Ostriker writes about her life as a wife, mother, and grandmother with tenderness, but she is also edgy, erotic, funny, and ornery.’
Joyce Carol Oates had this to say about Ostrikers’s writing, ‘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.’
Ostriker, a major American poet and critic, has published eleven volumes of poetry, including The Volcano Sequence and The Crack in Everything. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Paris Review, Yale Review, Ontario Review, The Nation, and many other journals and anthologies. Twice a National Book Award finalist, she has also received awards from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the Poetry Society of America, the San Francisco Poetry Center, and the Paterson Poetry Center, among others.
She lives in Princeton, NJ, is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, and currently teaches in the low-residency Poetry MFA program of New England College.
At the conclusion of the reading, Ostriker will sign copies of No Heaven.
This program is offered at no charge. For more information contact the Library at 603-427-1540 or visit our web site at www.cityofportsmouth.com/library.
