Vph: Jena Osman & Bradford Bucknum & Ariel Resnikoff

Jena Osman's books of poems include Corporate Relations (Burning Deck, 2014), Public Figures (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Network (Fence Books 2010, selected for the National Poetry Series in 2009), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books, 2004) and The Character (Beacon Press, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize). She is a Professor of English at Temple University, where she currently directs the MFA Creative Writing Program. Bradford Bucknum is a Philadelphia-based poet pursuing his MFA in Poetry at Temple University. He fronts the rock n' roll band, Oldermost, and works in the world of Urban Agriculture and Culinary Entrepreneurship. Ariel Resnikoff is a poet & translator. His chapbook, Between Shades, came out last May from The Materialist Press. He is currently translating into English Mikhl Likht's Yiddish modernist long poem, Processions, in collaboration with Stephen Ross. He was the recipient of a 2013/14 Dorot Fellowship & began his doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania this past fall.