American Poetry Museum

American Poetry Museum Brenda Marie Osbey is an author of poetry and of prose nonfiction in English and in French. Recent work appears in Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing; Poet Lore; Planète Ovale; Southern Literary Journal; and Atlantic Studies: Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives. From 2005 to 200...7, she served as the first peer-selected poet laureate of Louisiana.

Osbey is the author of All Saints: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press), Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman (Story Line Press, 1991), In These Houses (Wesleyan University Press, 1988) and Ceremony for Minneconjoux (Callaloo Poetry Series, 1983; University Press of Virginia, 1985).

Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and collections including: Callaloo, Obsidian, Essence, Southern Exposure, Southern Review, Early Ripening: American Women's Poetry Now, The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry, 2PLUS2: A Collection of International Writing, Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, Epoch, The American Voice, and The American Poetry Review.

Brenda Marie Osbey is a native of New Orleans.


INTERSECTIONS DOWNTOWN is a monthly poetry reading series that explores the artistic influences of poetry through presentation and intensive discussion. The series concludes with an open mic session.