The Sophia Center invites you to a reading by Alicia Suskin Ostriker on Sunday, October 21, 1 pm at the Huntington Jewish Center, 510 Park Avenue, Huntington, New York.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker, a major American poet and critic, is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including The Imagery Lover, which won the 1986 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and The Crack in Everything (1996), which was a National Book Award finalist and won both the Paterson Poetry Prize and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award. Her most recent book, The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998, was also a National Book Award finalist and a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets.

Ostriker’s critical works include Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America (1986), Feminist Revision and the Bible (1992), and The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions (1994). Ostriker has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey Arts Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation; and has performed her poetry at many universities and festivals in this country and abroad – in England, Italy, Japan and Israel. She lives in Princeton, NJ and teaches English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University.