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Jena Osman

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

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

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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

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Works

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  • 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

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References

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