Ostriker, Alicia
Like a photon, like a shower
Of yellow flames–
She believes if she could only catch up
-Alicia Ostriker, “A Young Woman, A Tree”
Listen to Alicia Ostriker’s reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago:
Check out this 2010 interview with Alicia Ostriker about her process of writing “Daffodils”:
Alicia Ostriker
Alicia Ostriker’s thirteenth collection of poems, the Book of Seventy , won the 2009 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry. Her 1980 anti-wa…
Some claim the origin of song
was a war cry
some say it was a rhyme
telling the farmers when to plant and reap
don’t they know the first song was a lullaby
pulled from a mother’s sleep
said the old woman
– Alicia Ostriker, “Song”
Watch this short NYS Writers Institute video of Alicia Ostriker on being a poet:
Alicia Suskin Ostriker at the NYS Writers Institute in 2015
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