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Alicia Ostriker and Patrice Vecchione
•Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 7:30 pm
Poet and Critic Alicia Ostriker has published ten books of
poetry. Her collection The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998) was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore
Marshall Poetry Prize. The Crack in Everything (1996) was a National Book
Award finalist and won both the Paterson Poetry Award and the San Francisco
State Poetry Center Award; and The Imaginary Lover (1986) was the winner of
the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. Her most
recent collection is No Heaven (University of Pittsburgh Press,
2005). Her most recent critical book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays
on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. She has written several other critical
works, including Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence
of Women’s Poetry in America (1986). She has also published two books on the
Bible: Feminist Revision and the Bible and the controversial The Nakedness of
the Fathers; Biblical Visions and Revisions, a combination of prose and poetry
that re-imagines the Bible from the perspective of a contemporary Jewish
woman. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey with her husband, and teaches English
and creative writing at Rutgers University.
Visit Alicia Ostriker’s website,
Read three poems
by Alicia Ostriker
Read about No Heaven.
See the review by Rick Kleffel of
Alicia Ostriker’s No Heaven in the Santa Cruz Metro.
Patrice Vecchione is the author of the collection of poetry
Territory of Wind (Many Names Press, 1998) and the nonfiction book, Writing and the Spiritual
Life: Finding Your Voice by Looking Within (McGraw-Hill, 2001). She is the editor of many acclaimed
anthologies of poetry and prose for adults and young people, including Truth
and Lies: An Anthology of Poems and Revenge & Forgiveness: An Anthology of Poems (Henry
Holt), which was named one of the year’s best books by School Library Journal.
About Writing and the Spiritual Life, The Writer Magazine said, “This book will
show you the way. Trust the voice of Patrice Vecchione.“ Patrice will lead a
five-day workshop based on this book at Esalen Institute in December.
For nearly thirty years, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to children and adults
through her program The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination, a writing and
literature program. She's just completed a manuscript of poetry, The Knot Untied, and
is currently at work on a new anthology of poetry.
In addition to writing and teaching, Patrice loves her bicycle. On her 48th birthday
this summer she took a 100 mile spin. Patrice lives in Monterey.
“Patrice Vecchione is one of those steady yet vibrant, serious and passionate temperaments
who continually replenish our sense of communal creativity. In my country of possibility,
she and people like her would be nationally honored figures.”
Take a look at Patrice Vecchione’s
website for more information about upcoming workshops and events.
See the article by Christa Martin
in the Good Times.
Listen for the interview with Patrice Vecchione on Tuesday, September 13
on The Open Road, 11 AM to 1 PM
on KUSP 88.9 FM.
This event is supported, in part, by a grant from the Cultural
Council of Santa Cruz County.
Poetry Santa Cruz receives funding from the the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County and
Poets & Writers, Inc., and is sponsored by the William James Association,the Museum of Art & History,
the National Writers Union Local 7, KUSP, Capitola Book Cafe, The Attic,
Cabrillo College and Bookshop Santa Cruz. Membership premiums have been donated by
Graywolf Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Robert Sward, Patricia Grube, Coffee House Press
and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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