Creator Bio
Alicia Ostriker
b. 1937
Alicia Ostriker, a poet and literary critic, grew up in New York and is a professor at Rutgers University as well as a faculty member of the New England College MFA Program. Twice nominated for a National Book Award, Ostriker has received numerous honors, including the Jewish Book Award for Poetry, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Psalm
I am not lyric any more
I will not play the harp
for your pleasure
I will not make a joyful
noise to you, neither
will I lament
for I know you drink
lamentation, too,
like wine
so I dully…