About
Gillian Osborne is a writer and educator from upstate New York who lives in California.
Her current interests include rabbits, caterpillars, plants, hills, soil, women, children, proximate wildernesses, ritual, magic and play.
About
Gillian Osborne is a writer and educator from upstate New York who lives in California.
Her current interests include rabbits, caterpillars, plants, hills, soil, women, children, proximate wildernesses, ritual, magic and play.
Work
Selected Work
Work
Selected Work
Education & Outreach
Poetry of Earth, Sea, Sky
Harvard Extension School
2019
Institute for Writing & Thinking
Bard College
from time to time
Al Gore Does His Best Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nautilus
2018
Ziff Environmental
Fellow in English
Harvard University Center
for the Environment
2015-2017
Between a Boat
and a Green Place
Bartram’s Garden & Wetlands
with Anisa George
2016
Conference
on Ecopoetics
UC Berkeley
with Angela Hume & Margaret Ronda
2013
Field Notes from
the 2013 Conference
on Ecopoetics
Jacket2
with Angela Hume & Margaret Ronda
2013
Scholarship
Plant Life & Poetics of Transtemporality
Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought,
Bloomsbury Press
2021
Herman Melville the Poet
Boston Review
2019
Dickinson and Historical Ecopoetics
The New Emily Dickinson Studies,
Cambridge University Press
2019
Melville and His Flowers
The New Melville Studies,
Cambridge University Press
2019
Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field
Contemporary North American Poetry Series,
University of Iowa Press
with Angela Hume
2018
Apple Trees in the Archive: Thoreau, Milton, and the Melancholy of American History
Milton Studies
2017
Herman Melville,
Queen of the Flowers
Leviathan
2016
A More Ordinary Poet: Seeking Emily Dickinson
Boston Review
2013
Dickinson’s Lyric Materialism
Emily Dickinson Journal
2009
Writing
Green Green Green
Nightboat Books
2021
basic research
Oxeye Press
2023
Basic Research & Stanzas
ISLE
2020
Plant Poetics & Beyond: Lichen Writing
Entropy
2019
Poppy/Friend
LARB Quarterly Journal
with Juliana Chow
2019
Poem with Oratory & Roses
American Literary Review
2019
Poem with Birds
The New Republic
2018
Watching Baseball,
Writing Poetry
Boom
with Megan Pugh
2014
Stone Age Nostalgia:
The Deep History of Fashionable Foraging
The New Inquiry
2014