The Niagara County Community College, as part of its Poetry on the Edge Series, successfully hosted a reading featuring Jeanne-Marie Osterman on April 21 in the Dolce Valvo Art Gallery at the Sanborn Campus. Ms. Osterman read from her books Shellback (Kirkus Top 100 Indie Books of 2021) and All Animals Want the Same Thing (Winner of the 2021 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Contest). The series has been a tradition of the College for 29 years.
JEANNE-MARIE OSTERMAN’S SHELLBACK ONE OF THE BEST INDIE BOOKS OF 2021
Courageous, insightful, and unsettling poems about war and family ties.
Kirkus Reviews
San Mateo, 17 December 2021 — Paloma Press proudly shares that Kirkus Reviews has named Jeanne-Marie Osterman’s Shellback one of the Best Books of 2021! The announcement was made in the December 15 issue of Kirkus Reviews Magazine. Shellback has also earned a Kirkus Star four months after it was released on February 1st.
Jeanne-Marie Osterman is the author of There’s a Hum (Finishing Line Press) and All Animals Want the Same Things, winner of the Slipstream Press 34th Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in Borderlands, New Ohio Review, Cathexis Northwest, 45th Parallel Magazine, and elsewhere. A Pushcart-nominated poet, Osterman is finalist for the 2018 Joy Harjo Poetry Award and 2017 Levis Prize in Poetry. She is poetry editor for Cagibi, a journal of prose and poetry.
Writers Room Executive Director Donna Brodie recently interviewed Jeanne-Marie Osterman. What inspired Shellback? And what’s a “shellback”? Continue reading.
“My three themes—the love between parent and child, the tragedies of war, and caring for a parent in old age—are themes I think a lot of people can relate to. To help the manuscript hold together, I made them my focus.”
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