Word-Beggar in a Jewish Graveyard: A Dispatch from a Jewish Life in Poetry

Poet Jacqueline Osherow, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah, will present this year’s annual Dr. Maurice Sitomer Lecture. Jacqueline Osherow is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple (LSU Press, 2019). Her ninth poetry collection, Divine Ratios, is forthcoming from LSU Press in 2023. She’s received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as several prizes from the Poetry Society of America.