University of Pittsburgh Press poets, February 27
University of Pittsburgh Press presents an evening of poetry from three distinguished poets with distinctly different voices. \n\nNew Poetry in the Pitt Poetry Series\nIn "Tiger Heron," Becker explores relationships between humans and other creatures, while also reaching into core human experiences, such as the deaths of parents.\n\nHamby\u2019s "On the Street of Divine Love" is a collection of 25 years of "word-drunk excursions into the American female consciousness with stops in Italy, Paris, and London." \n\nIn Ostriker's new collection, "The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog," she presents a sequence of poems in the voices of an old woman full of memories, a glamorous tulip, and an earthy dog who always has the last word.\n\nAbout the poets\nRobin Becker is a professor of English and Women\u2019s Studies at Pennsylvania State University and is the award-winning author of seven poetry collections, including \u201cDomain of Perfect Affection,\u201d \u201cThe Horse Fair,\u201d \u201cGiacometti\u2019s Dog,\u201d and \u201cAll-American Girl,\u201d winner of the Lambda Literary Award.\n\nBarbara Hamby is the award-winning author of four poetry collections, including "All-Night Lingo Tango" and "Babel." She has co-edited "Seriously Funny," an anthology of poetry. She is a distinguished university scholar at Florida State University, specializing in poetry and fiction.\n\nAlicia Suskin Ostriker is the award-winning author of 15 poetry collections, including \u201cThe Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979\u20132011\u201d and \u201cThe Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998,\u201d as well as several books on the Bible. She is professor emerita of English at Rutgers University and teaches in the low-residency MFA program of Drew University.