Gillian Osborne

Gillian Osborne is a writer and educator based in California, whose interests include American literature, poetry, and plants. She has a PhD in English from UC Berkeley, and teaches for the Harvard Extension School and the Bard College Language & Thinking Program.

Herman Melville the Poet

The author of Moby Dick is best known for his novels, but he devoted the second half of his life to writing poetry.

  • Gillian Osborne

A More Ordinary Poet

With Emily Dickinson, the challenge is to understand a flesh-and-blood woman whose life took place on paper.

  • Gillian Osborne
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