Jacqueline Osherow

A photo of Jacqueline Oshervow smiling in a field of red flowers.

Jacqueline Osherow has authored nine poetry collections, most recently Divine Ratios (LSU Press, 2023). This is the opening poem of her forthcoming collection, After Giotto (LSU Press, 2027). She’s received Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and the Witter Bynner Prize. Her poems appear in many magazines, journals and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, The Norton Anthology of Jewish American Literature, A Century of Poems in the New Yorker. She’s a distinguished professor at the University of Utah.

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Jacqueline Osherow  | 
Issue 75.2 Spring 2026

Paint vice. Paint virtue. / Birth. Marriage. Death. The human story. / Envy. Wrath. Despair. Paint what’s true