February 1998 (original) (raw)

7:00PM: Philly Talks #4: Poets Jena Osman andTina Darragh read their own poems, then give brief talks about each other's work. A roundtable discussion, then dinner, will follow.

Jena Osman _(pictured at right)_has published six books of poetry:Jury (Meow Press, 1996), Amblyopia (Avenue B, 1993), The Lab-Book (Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo, 1992), Balance (Leave Books, 1992),Underwater Dive: Version One (Paradigm Press, 1990) and Twelve Parts of Her (Burning Deck Press, 1989). Her poetry has also been anthologized in The Art of Practice: Forty-Five Contemporary Poets, as well as Subliminal Time and Writing From the New Coast: Presentation. She is the co-editor (with Juliana Spahr) of Chain, a journal that investigates language in its various presentational frames. Also see her online works:

• The Periodic Table As Assembled by Dr. Zhivago, Oculist
• Dead Text

Tina Darragh's books include on the corner to off the corner (Sun & Moon, 1981), Striking Resemblance(Burning Deck, 1989), a(gain)2 st the odds (Potes and Poets, 1989), and adv. fans - the 1968 series (Leave Books, 1993). Her work has been included in several anthologies, among them In the American Tree (National Poetry Foundation, 1986), "Language" Poetries(New Directions, 1987), out of everywhere: linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK (Reality Street Editions, 1996), and Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women (Talisman, forthcoming 1998). Selections from her current project, the dream rim instructions, have been published in_Chain_ and Primary Writing, and will be featured in a forthcoming Etruscan Reader. Darragh is employed as a reference librarian at the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at Georgetown University. She lives in Greenbelt, Maryland, with her husband P. Inman and their son, Jack.