Word-Beggar in a Jewish Graveyard

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 has 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 a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America.

Her poems have appeared in many magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, the Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, the Longman Anthology of Poetry, Best American Poetry, the Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Literature, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Twentieth Century American Poetry, and The Making of a Poem. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah.

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