Brenda Marie Osbey
American poet (born 1957)
Brenda Marie Osbey | |
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Born | (1957-12-12) December 12, 1957 (age 66) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet |
Education | Dillard University Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3 University of Kentucky (MA) |
Notable awards | American Book Award (1998) |
Brenda Marie Osbey (born December 12, 1957, in New Orleans) is an American poet.[1] She served as the Poet Laureate of Louisiana from 2005 to 2007.[2][3]
Life
She graduated from Dillard University, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, and from the University of Kentucky, with an M.A. She has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, Loyola University New Orleans, and at Dillard University.[4] She was Visiting Writer-in-residence at Tulane University and Scholar-in-residence at Southern University. She teaches at Louisiana State University.
Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Obsidian, Essence, Southern Exposure, Southern Review, Epoch, The American Voice, and The American Poetry Review.
Awards
- 2004 Carmargo Foundation Fellow [5]
- 1998 American Book Award
- 1990 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
- 1984 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Poetry Award
- 1980 Loring-Williams Prize, Academy of American Poets
Works
- All Saints: New and Selected Poems. Louisiana State University Press. November 1, 1997. ISBN 978-0-8071-2198-6.
- Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman. Story Line Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-934257-57-2.
- In These Houses. Wesleyan University Press. September 1, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8195-2146-0.
- Ceremony for Minneconjoux. University Press of Virginia. 1983. ISBN 978-0-912759-03-6.
Anthologies
- Marge Piercy, ed. (1987). Early Ripening: American Women's Poetry Now. Pandora. ISBN 978-0-86358-108-3.
- Leon Stokesbury, ed. (1999). The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry. University of Arkansas Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-55728-579-9.
Brenda Marie Osbey.
- James Gill, ed. 1987 2PLUS2: A Collection of International Writing, Lausanne, Switzerland: Mylabris Press.
- William L. Andrews, ed. (October 1997). Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology. W W Norton & Co Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-97270-2.
- Frederick Smock, ed. (1998). "The Evening News". The American voice anthology of poetry. University Press of Kentucky. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-8131-0956-5.
Brenda Marie Osbey.
- Charles H. Rowell, ed. (2002). "Setting Loose the Icons". Making Callaloo: 25 years of Black literature. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-28898-3.
References
- ^ Yolanda Williams Page, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33429-0.
- ^ "Louisiana Poet Laureate". Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
- ^ "Louisiana". The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ HighBeam[dead link]
- ^ "The Camargo Foundation : Fellow Project Details". www.camargofoundation.org. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011.
External links
- "Author's website"
- "Louisiana's Poet Laureate: What Was Lost", NPR
- Jefferson Humphries; John W. Lowe, eds. (1996). "An Interview with Brenda Marie Osbey". The future of southern letters. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509781-8.
- Catherine Higgs; Barbara A. Moss; Earline Rae Ferguson, eds. (2002). "Wild and Holy Women in the Poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey". Stepping forward: Black women in Africa and the Americas. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1455-2.
- William L. Andrews; Frances Smith Foster; Trudier Harris, eds. (2001). The concise Oxford companion to African American literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513883-2.
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