| Program: |
| Welcome Address |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Richard E. Miller, Chair of Department of English |
| Panel I: Writing Like a Woman |
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. |
Harriet Davidson (Rutgers University): Introduction and Moderator
Toi Derricotte (Poet): “Writing Like an (Old?) (Mature?) (Wise?) Woman”
Anne Herzog (University of Westchester): “‘ Art [in]divisible from dirt’: Some Words of Celebration and Gratitude”
Cheryl Clarke (Poet, Rutgers University): “Writing Like A Black Woman”
Martha Nell Smith (University of Maryland): “‘ The Imperative of Intimacy’: A Rumination Beginning with a Phrase by Ostriker” |
| Panel II: Stealing the Language |
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. |
Abena Busia (Rutgers University): Introduction and Moderator
Jan Heller Levi (Poet): “Writing Like a Woman, After Alicia Ostriker”
Eleanor Wilner (Poet): “‘ Ladre di linguaggi ,’ thieves of language in the feminine case; an international conference on the revision and subversion of Greek myth in literature by women”
Sara Warner (Cornell University): “Feminist Revision and Mythology”
Marianne DeKoven Rutgers University): “The Consequences of Language Theft: Stealing the Language Twenty Years Later” |
| Panel III: Dancing at the Devil’s Party |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. |
Evie Shockley (Rutgers University): Introduction and Moderator
Marilyn Hacker (Poet): A Poetry Reading
Kathy Crown (Princeton University):
“Ecstasy: A Poet’s Casebook”
Daisy Fried (Poet): “Do they hate me: What to Love in American Political Poetry”
Anthony Lioi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): “Dance Mix for the Devil’s Party: Heretical Unions in Feminist Theory and Practice”
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| Keynote Address |
| 5:15 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. |
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
“Women and Poetry: What’s Politics Got to Do With It?”
Martha Nell Smith (University of Maryland): Introduction |
| Reception |
| 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. |
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Featuring Poets:
Marilyn Hacker
Toi Derricotte
Jan Heller Levi
Cheryl Clarke
Daisy Fried
Eleanor Wilner
Presentations by Critics:
Marianne DeKoven
Martha Nell Smith
Harriet Davidson
Abena Busia
Evie Shockley
Anne Herzog
Kathleen Crown
Anthony Lioi
Sara Warner
Alicia Suskin Ostriker Biography:
Alicia Suskin Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. Twice nominated for a National Book Award, she is the author of eleven volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven. As a critic Ostriker is the author of two pathbreaking volumes on women's poetry, Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America. 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 reimagines the Bible from the perspective of a contemporary Jewish woman. Her most recent prose book is Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic.
Ostriker's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Antaeus, The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Atlantic, MS, Tikkun, and many other journals, and have been widely anthologized. Her poetry and essays have been translated into French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, and Arabic.
Ostriker has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, the Judah L. Magnes Museum, the New Jersey Arts Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
At Rutgers University Ostriker taught courses in literature and creative writing from 1965 to 2004. |
