The Poetry of Alicia Ostriker: Observations and Engagements
The first two sections of Ostriker’s Waiting for the Light invite us to reconsider familiar New York City encounters with vendors and cardplayers, taxi drivers, immigrants and tourists and to note human energy and the energy of changing seasons. The last two sections of the book include poems of witness which consider America and the world.
Our course text, Waiting for the Light, was winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.
A teacher, scholar and critic, Ostriker has published seventeen volumes of poetry as well as books on women’s writing, American poetry and the Bible
From 6 to 7:30PM we will discuss Ostriker’s poems; from 7:30 to 8 students will have the option of writing poems in response to a prompt based on the style or content of the poems discussed in class.
Instructor: Sr. Fran McManus, R.S.M., M.A.
Mondays, February 26th-April 15th, no class April 1
6:00-8:00 PM
on ZOOM
Fee $60.00