Jena Osman
Introduction '''Jena Osman''' is an American poet and editor, who graduated from Brown University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo, with a Ph.D. She teaches at Temple University.
Biography Osman's work has appeared in ''American Letters & Commentary'', ''Conjunctions'', ''Hambone'', ''Verse'', and ''XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics''.With Juliana Spahr, she founded and edited ''Chain''. She has been a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and Chateau de la Napoule. She inspired the start of ''Hyphen'' magazine.In her ongoing project, "Court Reports," Osman worked directly from court records, judicial opinions bearing the stamp and influence of Charles Reznikoff.
Awards * 2009 National Poetry Series* 2006 Pew Fellowships* 1998 Barnard Women Poets Prize* National Endowment for the Arts grant* the New York Foundation for the Arts grant* The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant* Fund for Poetry grant
Works **  "flag of my disposition"; "hurrah for positive science", ''5 Trope''*  "THE PERIODIC TABLE AS ASSEMBLED BY DR. ZHIVAGO, OCULIST", ''Zhivago'', 2002-3*****===Anthologies===* The Best American Poetry 2002, (editor: Robert Creeley)
References
External links *  Jena Osman Website*  "Jena Osman", ''Penn Sound''*  Faculty Homepage at Temple University*  Jena Osman and violist/composer Nadia Sirota interview each other in InDigest