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Alicia Ostriker wins award for THE BOOK OF SEVENTY
February 9, 2011 from 7:30pm to 9pm – Center for Jewish History
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Alicia Ostriker wins award for THE BOOK OF SEVENTY at Center for Jewish History
February 9, 2011 from 7:30pm to 9pm
Ceremony for National Jewish Book Awards
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York City
7:30PM
Hello, Alicia! I so agree with you. Indeed, in my comment I made more or less the same point, though you make it more concretely and poignantly. Last year I published an essay on necklaces; the in-passing blog responses to it are generally "this is…
Thanks so much for responding to the Publishers Weekly article, Alicia. I was a freelance book reviewer for more than twenty-five years and was especially grateful to be a cheerleader for the terrific books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written…
Marilyn,
I think we start within especially since we are buying more books. What stops us from reviewing women and having an impact ourselves?
My senior year in high school I wrote a story about a kind man who carries Christ’s cross for a bit so Christ can have a break, sent it to a religious magazine and earned $50.00. The following year I published my first two poems in the Massachusetts…
Here's a short list of great YA written by women of color for 2009. YA is far more sophisticated, diverse and relevant that many adult readers realize. If you haven't read any YA lately, I invite to check out these works. Chin and Nguyen are memoirs…
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
~Shirley Chisholm
Alicia,
My surprise comes when I talk to women who when asked who they read and who their favorite author…
Dear Cate and Erin,
You women rock. You are fantastic writers, woman writers, woman-as-mother writers, woman-as-activist writers: intelligent, eloquent, with long memories and high hopes--you are MY dream come true, and I'm ordering your books toda…
There are many other works I'd like to add to the list, especially in CanLit, which I am most familiar with. Here is a small sample:
- Critical Injuries, by Joan Barfoot, ISBN-10: 1552633470
- Late Nights on Air, by Elizabeth Hay (Giller 2007), ISB…
Margaret Atwood came out with The Year of the Flood in 2009. It's a vivid rendering of post-apocalyptic Earth, this time told from the point of view of two female protagonists. Her previous work was just as gripping: Oryx and Crake, published in 200…
The PW "ten best" list was a surprise, but not a big one, at least not for me--though when I shared the news with my husband, HE was outraged. "How dare they?" said he.
It was a little dismaying to read the descriptions of the books, which you can…
Wonderful Norman Mailer quote. It's always a good thing to have one's enemies be very intelligent, very gifted writers, so that they virtually diagram what it is one must struggle against. Yes, the Mailer quote is archetypal. It frames his hatred an…
Alicia, I noticed exactly the same as you did in the PW list -- wonderful to see it analyzed this way! Chapeau also to your husband -- allies are needed, especially if they are capable of generating the outrage that is warranted.
I discovered your l…
The PW "ten best" list was a surprise, but not a big one, at least not for me--though when I shared the news with my husband, HE was outraged. "How dare they?" said he.
It was a little dismaying to read the descriptions of the books, which you can…
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- Please list any books you have written, or anthologies you have contributed to, and any scripts or plays you have authored, so that we may feature them in our bookstore and on the main page.
- POETRY BOOKS
The Mother/Child Papers. Los Angeles: Momentum Press, 1980. Rpt. Beacon Press, l986, Pittsburgh, 2008.
A Woman Under the Surface. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
The Imaginary Lover. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986.
Green Age. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions. Rutgers University Press, 1994.
The Crack in Everything. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996
The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998. 1998, University of Pittsburgh Press.
The Volcano Sequence. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
No Heaven. Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh press, 2005.
The Book of Seventy. . Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh press, 2009.
Also: Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America
- What media outlets, if any, do you currently write for?
- jbooks
- Which of the following genres best describe your work?
- Poetry
- Do you review books, television or film?
- sometimes--poetry by women/ jewish poetry
- Do you offer services to other writers? Please describe.
- I lead a midrash writing workshop in NYC once a month
- Are you currently part of a writers' group or a writers' salon?
- wom-po--an online women's poetry group
- Do you have any professional associations?
- American Writing Programs--AWP
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Publishers Weekly Versus the Rest of Us
The PW "ten best" list was a surprise, but not a big one, at least not for me--though when I shared the news with my husband, HE was outraged. "How dare they?" said he.
It was a little dismaying to read the descriptions of the books, which you can do at http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704263.html, and realize how very much it was shaped by "boy" subjects. "Gritty, mostly honest-hearted ex-heroin addict protagonist R… Continue
It was a little dismaying to read the descriptions of the books, which you can do at http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704263.html, and realize how very much it was shaped by "boy" subjects. "Gritty, mostly honest-hearted ex-heroin addict protagonist R… Continue
Posted on November 13, 2009 at 12:56pm — 9 Comments
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- At 12:26pm on June 6, 2010,
Jill Starishevsky said…
- Hi Alicia,
I wanted to connect with you and ask for your feedback. I recently did my first on-camera interview for the children's book on child sexual abuse prevention that I wrote, My Body Belongs to Me. Please let me know what you think when you have some time.
Thanks in advance.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/talking-kids-sexual-abuse-10255396
Jill Starishevsky
Author, My Body Belongs to Me
www.MyBodyBelongstoMe.com
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