Lime Square Poets Featuring Alicia Ostriker & Open Mic
Alicia Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. Author of 17 collections of poetry, she has been twice nominated for the National Book Award, and has twice received the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, among other honours. As a critic, she is the author of the now-classic Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America, and other books on poetry and on the Bible, most recently For the Love of God: the Bible as an Open Book. Her most recent collections of poems are Waiting for the Light and The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019. Her poems have been translated into numerous languages including Hebrew and Arabic. In 2015, Ostriker was appointed a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She is currently the New York State Poet Laureate. Visit the Facebook Event Page to Access Zoom Details.
18th November / 7.45pm
Zoom
Entry Free
Lime Square Poets host gatherings every Thursday via Zoom, beginning at 8pm with a reading by a guest poet followed by an open mic.