Moonstone Poetry @PhillyCAM: Research and Poetic Practice with Jena Osman, Orchid Tierney, and Host Charles S. Carr

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Documents in the Archive: Research and Poetic Practice

How and why do poets conduct research? In what ways do poets use the archive to write poetry? This discussion will explore archival research and how poets incorporate their findings into their work. 

Jena Osman

Jena Osman’s books of poems include Motion Studies, Corporate Relations, Public Figures, The Network, An Essay in Asterisks and The Character, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Osman was a Pew Fellow in the Arts and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Howard Foundation, and the Fund for Poetry. She founded and edited the award-winning and internationally recognized literary magazine Chain with Juliana Spahr for twelve years; Osman and Spahr now edit the occasional ChainLinks Book series together.

Orchid Tierney

Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa-New Zealand, now residing in Gambier, Ohio. Her chapbooks include Brachiation (Dunedin: Gumtree Press, 2012), The World in Small Parts (Chicago: Dancing Girl Press, 2012), Gallipoli Diaries (Gausspdf, 2017), and the full-length sound translation of Margery Kemp, Earsay (Trollthread, 2016). First collection, a year of misreading the wildcats, is out from The Operating System (2019). She received an MCW from the University of Auckland (2010), an MA from University of Otago (2013), and a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania (2019). She is Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College.

Charles S. Carr – Host