Upcoming Readings – Fall 2025
November 2, 2025: Alicia Ostriker
Read an Interview with Alicia Ostriker, conducted by Ann van Buren.
Alicia Ostriker has published seventeen volumes of poetry, including The Volcano and After; Waiting for the Light; The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog; The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems 1979-2011; No Heaven; The Volcano Sequence; and The Imaginary Lover, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She was twice a National Book Award Finalist, for The Little Space (1998) and The Crack in Everything (1996), and twice a National Jewish Book Award winner. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Paris Review, Yale Review, Ontario Review, The Nation, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Anthology, and many other journals and anthologies, and has been translated into numerous languages including Hebrew and Arabic. Ostriker’s critical work includes the now-classic Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America, and other books on American poetry and on the Bible. more info & video>>
Our Poet Interviews
Read more about our most recent poet, Mark Wunderlich, in our exclusive KPS interview by Ann van Buren who read for us on Sunday, May 4 at 4PM in the Katonah Village Library.
And check out our other archived Poet Interviews for fascinating insights into other KPS poets over the years.
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For over half a century, KPS has been a cultural institution. Founded by local poet Robert Phillips and continued with former Poet Laureate of the United States, Billy Collins, KPS has hosted the most accomplished poets in the world.
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