Andrew Osborn, Ph.D.

• A.B., Harvard University
• M.F.A., University of Iowa - Writers' Workshop
• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

• Literary Tradition I (Iliad, Odyssey; Aeneid; Beowulf; Gawain)]
• Literary Tradition II (Divine Comedy; Paradise Lost; Lyric )
• Literary Tradition III (Fifth-century Athenian, Medieval, and Elizabethan drama)
• Literary Tradition IV (Mansfield Park; Moby-Dick; Crime & Punishment; Go Down, Moses; short fiction)
• Literary Study I: Lyric ("Junior Poet")
• Literary Study II: Prose Fiction
• Twentieth-Century Literature
• Twentieth-Century Poetry by the Book
• Creative Writing: Poetry
• Creative Writing: Narrative Fiction
• Lyric Theory
• Modern Irish Poetry
• Marilynne Robinson:  Novels & Essays of American Mindfulness

• Lyric poetry and theory
• Literary difficulty
• Modernism and postmodernism
• Pragmatism and ordinary language philosophy
• 20th-century Irish poetry
• The sublime

• Rev. of I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems 1960-2014, by Bill Knott. Chicago Review 60.4/61.1 (2017): 209-18.
• "Likings, Likenings, and the Push of Reading."  Philological Review 40.2 (2014): 37-64.
• "Difficulty." The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th Ed. Eds. Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012. 364-66.
• "Like Animals, Like Love."  Rev. of  The Lions, by Peter Campion, Never-Ending Birds, by David Baker, andHorse and Rider, by Melissa Range.  Spoon River Poetry Review 35.2 (2010): 94-123.
• "Habits of Thought, Inhabitings of Possibility: An Interview with John Koethe." Southwest Review92.1 (2007): 52-81.  poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_osborn.php
• "'A Little Hard to See': Wittgenstein, Stevens, and the Uses of Unclarity." Wallace Stevens Journal28.1 (2004): 59-80.
• "August Kleinzahler: Interview." Verse 17.2-3/18.1 (2001): 165-90. Rpt. in The Verse Book of Interviews: 27 Poets on Language, Craft & Culture. Amherst, Mass.: Verse, 2005. 30-55.
• Admit Impediment:  The Use of Difficulty in Twentieth-Century American Poetry.  Diss. University of Texas at Austin, 2001. Ann Arbor:  UMI, 2001. AAT 3008413.
• "Skirmishes on the Border: The Evolution and Function of Paul Muldoon's Fuzzy Rhyme."Contemporary Literature 41.2 (2000): 323-58. Rpt. in Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form. Ed. Annie Finch and Susan M. Schultz (Textos, 2008): 259-303.
• "Street-Smart Swagger and Tendresse." Rev. of  Green Sees Things in Waves, by August Kleinzahler. Notre Dame Review 10  (2000):  153-58.
• "Poirier's Latest Push." Rev. of Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances, by Richard Poirier. Iowa Review 30.1 (2000): 171-77.

Poetry

• Plato's Aviary.  Ridgefield, Conn.: Aldrich, 2003.
• Poems published in American Letters & Commentary, Bat City Review, Colorado Review, Columbia, Denver Quarterly, Erato, Fence, Graham House Review, Notre Dame Review, Southwest Review (Morton Marr Poetry Prize for 2008), and Spoon River Poetry Review. Also: online through the Blanton Poetry Project and Verse Daily.

 

• Rev. of Swarm, by Jorie Graham. Boston Review 25.1  (2000): 56-58. www.joriegraham.com/osborn_2000
• Rev. of My Way: Speeches and Poems, by Charles Bernstein. Chicago Review 45.3/4 (1999): 173-77. Rpt. inContemporary Literary Criticism 142.
• Rev. of On a Stair, by Ann Lauterbach. Boston Review 23.6 (1998-99): 55-57.  www.bostonreview.net/BR23.6/osborn.html