Brenda Marie Osbey Explained

Brenda Marie Osbey
Birth Date:	12 December 1957
Birth Place:	New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet
Education:	Dillard University Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3 University of Kentucky (MA)
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

• Book: All Saints: New and Selected Poems . Louisiana State University Press . November 1, 1997. 978-0-8071-2198-6 .
• Book: Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman. Story Line Press. 1991. 978-0-934257-57-2. registration.
• Book: In These Houses . Wesleyan University Press . September 1, 1988 . 978-0-8195-2146-0 . registration .
• Book: Ceremony for Minneconjoux . University Press of Virginia. 1983. 978-0-912759-03-6 .

Anthologies

• Book: Early Ripening: American Women's Poetry Now. registration. Marge Piercy. Pandora. 1987. 978-0-86358-108-3 .
• Book: The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry. registration. 239. Brenda Marie Osbey.. Leon Stokesbury. University of Arkansas Press. 1999. 978-1-55728-579-9 .
• James Gill, ed. 1987 2PLUS2: A Collection of International Writing, Lausanne, Switzerland: Mylabris Press.
• Book: Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology. registration. William L. Andrews . W W Norton & Co Inc . October 1997. 978-0-393-97270-2 .
• Book: The American voice anthology of poetry. registration. 78. Brenda Marie Osbey.. The Evening News. Frederick Smock. University Press of Kentucky. 1998. 978-0-8131-0956-5 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=89wdVQ92110C&q=Brenda+Marie+Osbey&pg=PA372. Setting Loose the Icons. Making Callaloo: 25 years of Black literature . Charles H. Rowell . Macmillan. 2002. 978-0-312-28898-3 .

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Louisiana's Poet Laureate: What Was Lost", NPR
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=JkZblPtumg4C&q=Brenda+Marie+Osbey&pg=PA93. An Interview with Brenda Marie Osbey. The future of southern letters . Jefferson Humphries . John W. Lowe. Oxford University Press . 1996. 978-0-19-509781-8 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=Dd00m5JrFhMC&q=Brenda+Marie+Osbey&pg=PT251. Wild and Holy Women in the Poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey. Stepping forward: Black women in Africa and the Americas. Catherine Higgs . Barbara A. Moss . Earline Rae Ferguson . Ohio University Press. 2002. 978-0-8214-1455-2 .
• Book: The concise Oxford companion to African American literature. William L. Andrews . Frances Smith Foster . Trudier Harris . Oxford University Press . 2001. 978-0-19-513883-2 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers . Yolanda Williams Page. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2007. 978-0-313-33429-0 .
2. Web site: Louisiana Poet Laureate . Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities . 5 August 2022.
3. Web site: Louisiana . The Library of Congress . The Library of Congress . 30 July 2022.
4. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-15874326.html HighBeam
5. Web site: The Camargo Foundation : Fellow Project Details . www.camargofoundation.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110719141404/http://www.camargofoundation.org/fellowdetails.asp?recno=602 . 2011-07-19.