The English, Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language Department is pleased to present the Campus Poetry Project to celebrate poets and poetry during National Poetry Month that was established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and is celebrated every April.
“The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz”
by Alicia Ostriker
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From The Poetry Foundation: Poet, critic and activist Alicia Ostriker was born in 1937 in New York City. She earned degrees from Brandeis and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Twice a finalist for the National Book Award, Ostriker has published numerous volumes of poetry, including “Waiting for the Light” (2017), which was awarded the Berru Award from the Jewish Book Council, “The Old Woman,” the “Tulip and the Dog” (2014) and “The Book of Seventy” (2009), which received the Jewish National Book Award, to name just a few of her collections.
Known for her intelligence and passionate appraisal of women’s place in literature, Ostriker’s poetry and criticism investigates themes of family, social justice, Jewish identity, and personal growth. Her books of criticism include “For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book” (2009), “Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry,” “Politics, and the Erotic” (2000) and “Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America” (1983).
Ostriker has received awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. In 2015, she was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She has taught in the low-residency Poetry MFA program of Drew University and New England College. She lives in Princeton, NJ, and is professor emerita of English at Rutgers University. (Photo: courtesy of Blue Flower Arts)
The Campus Poetry Project
Throughout April, be on the lookout for poetry postings in the Campus Chronicle, on digital monitors and on lawn signs across our main campus.
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National Poetry Month – April 2025