About
Andrew Osborn received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and his PhD from UT-Austin. His research interests include poetic difficulty, formalism, and lyric theory.
- A.B., Harvard University
- M.F.A., University of Iowa - Writers' Workshop
- PhD, 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
- American Literature
- Lyric Poetry and Theory
- Literary Difficulty
- Modernism and Postmodernism
- Pragmatism and Ordinary Language Philosophy
- The Sublime
- Formalism
- Creative Writing (Poetry)
- 鈥淒igesting Appearances in Stevens鈥檚 Solicitous Essay 鈥楢bout One of Marianne Moore鈥檚 Poems.鈥欌�� The Wallace Stevens Journal, vol 50, no. 1, Spring 2026, pp. 40鈥�62, muse.jhu.edu/ article/985323.
- 鈥淐rude Foyer.鈥� The Wallace Stevens Journal, vol 49, no. 2, Fall 2025, pp. 193鈥�205, muse.jhu.edu/article/972493.
- 鈥溾�楢scending the Humane鈥�: Onwards and Upwards with Stevens and Classicism.鈥� The Wallace Stevens Journal, vol 49, no. 2, Fall 2025, pp. 101-07, muse.jhu.edu/article/972487.
- 鈥淪omeone Puts a Pythoness, a Pineapple, and the Promise of Utopia Together.鈥� The Wallace Stevens Journal, vol 49, no. 1, Spring 2025, pp. 1鈥�9, muse.jhu.edu/article/955366.
- 鈥淪tevens鈥檚 Soil: Intelligence, Conceptual Affordances, and the Genius Beyond.鈥� The Wallace Stevens Journal, vol. 47, no. 2, 2023, pp. 164-194, .
- 鈥淛ohn Keats (1795-1821 ce) & Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822 ce) at the Keats-Shelley House and the Cimitero Acattolico.鈥� People and Places of the Roman Past: The Educated Traveler鈥檚 Guide, edited by Peter Hatlie, Arc Humanities, 2018, pp. 28-41.
- 鈥淟ikings, Likenings, and the Push of Reading.鈥� Philological Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 2014, pp. 37-64.
- 鈥凄颈蹿蹿颈肠耻濒迟测.鈥� The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, fourth edition, edited by Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman, Princeton UP, 2012, pp. 364-66.
- 鈥淟ike Animals, Like Love.鈥� Review of The Lions, by Peter Campion, Never-Ending Birds, by David Baker, and Horse and Rider, by Melissa Range, Spoon River Poetry Review, vol. 35, no. 2, 2010, pp. 94-123.
- 鈥淗abits of Thought, Inhabitings of Possibility: An Interview with John Koethe.鈥� Southwest Review, vol. 92, no. 1, 2007, pp. 52-81.
- 鈥溾�楢 Little Hard to See鈥�: Wittgenstein, Stevens, and the Uses of Unclarity.鈥� The Wallace Stevens Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, 2004, pp. 59-80.
- 鈥淎ugust Kleinzahler: Interview.鈥� Verse, vol. 17, no. 2/3, and vol. 18, no. 1, 2001, pp. 165-90, reprinted in The Verse Book of Interviews: 27 Poets on Language, Craft & Culture, Verse, 2005, pp. 30-55.
- Admit Impediment: The Use of Difficulty in Twentieth-Century American Poetry. 2001. University of Texas at Austin, PhD dissertation, ProQuest 3008413.
- 鈥淪kirmishes on the Border: The Evolution and Function of Paul Muldoon鈥檚 Fuzzy Rhyme.鈥� Contemporary Literature, vol. 41, no. 2, 2000, pp. 323-58.
- Plato鈥檚 Aviary. Aldrich, 2003.
- Poems published in American Letters & Commentary, Bat City Review, Colorado Review, , Denver Quarterly, Erato, Fence, Graham House Review, , Notre Dame Review, Ramify, (Morton Marr Poetry Prize for 2008), and Spoon River Poetry Review. Also: online through the Blanton Poetry Project and .
- Review of Wallace Stevens in Theory, edited by Thomas Gould and Ian Tan. The Wallace Stevens Review, vol. 48, no. 1, 2024, pp. 115-29, .
- Review of Fast, by Jorie Graham. Chicago Review, vol. 62, no. 1/2/3, 2019, pp. 358-64, poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2019/07/andrew-osborn-reviews-jorie-grahams-fast.
- Review of I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems 1960-2014, by Bill Knott. Chicago Review, vol. 60, no. 4 and vol. 61, no. 1, 2017, pp. 209-18, .
- Review of Regions of Unlikeness: Explaining Contemporary Poetry, by Thomas Gardner, and Poetic Culture: Contemporary American Poetry Between Community and Institution, by Christopher Beach. Boston Review, vol. 26, no. 1, 2001, pp. 50-51, .
- Review of Swarm, by Jorie Graham. Boston Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 2000, pp. 56-58, .
- 鈥淪treet-Smart Swagger and Tendresse.鈥� Review of Green Sees Things in Waves, by August Kleinzahler. Notre Dame Review, vol. 10, 2000, pp. 153-58.
- 鈥淧oirier鈥檚 Latest Push.鈥� Rev. of Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances, by Richard Poirier. The Iowa Review, vol 30, no. 1, 2000, pp. 171-77.
- Review of My Way: Speeches and Poems, by Charles Bernstein. Chicago Review, vol. 45, no. 3/4, 1999, pp. 173-77, reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 142, .
- Review of On a Stair, by Ann Lauterbach. Boston Review, vol. 23, no. 6, 1998-99, pp. 55-57, .
- 鈥淎 Guide at the Threshold of Rhyme.鈥� Phi Beta Kappa Address. 猫咪AV. May 2025.
- 鈥淐herishing the Local.鈥� Keynote Address. Old Mill Symposium. Irving, TX. April 2022.
- 鈥淕raceful Errors, Lyric Yields.鈥� Keynote Address. Wyoming Catholic College. Lander, WY. Dec. 2017.
- 鈥淔ull Fadom.鈥� Convocation Address. U of Dallas, Church of the Incarnation. May 2016.
- 鈥淟ikings, Likenings, and the Push of Reading.鈥� Keynote Address. Arkansas Philological Association Meeting. Little Rock, AR. Oct. 2014.