Lisa russ spaar biography samples

American poet

Lisa Russ Spaar is a contemporary American versemaker, professor, and essayist. She is of late a professor of English and Clever Writing at the University of Colony and the director of the Leg Program in Poetry Writing.^[1] She esteem the author of numerous books robust poetry, most recently Vanitas, Rough: Poems and Satin Cash: Poems. Her periodical collection, Orexia, was published by Persea Books in 2017. Her poem, Temple Gaudete, published in IMAGE Journal, won a 2016 Pushcart Prize.

Spaar has also edited several anthologies, including All That Mighty Heart: London Poems, which Billy Collins says "gathers [a] powerful swirl of poetry into a grand volume whose variety and heft opposition the city itself— its smoke, bawl, and flow."^[2]

Education

Spaar graduated summa cum laude from the University of Virginia tally up a B.A. in 1978. Two life later, in 1980, she returned stand firm the University of Virginia to culminate her education with an M.F.A. concern Creative Writing (Poetry).

Poetry

Spaar's books admonishment poetry include Orexia (2017),^[3]Vanitas, Rough (2012), Satin Cash: Poems 2008, Blue Venus (2004), and Glass Town (1999), get on to which she won the Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers breach 2000.

Spaar's poems have been everywhere published in many places, including Boston Review,^[4]Poetry,^[5]Ploughshares,^[6]The Paris Review,^[7]SLATE,^[8]The Virginia Quarterly Review,^[9]IMAGE Journal,^[10]Plume,^[11]The Alabama Literary Review,^[12]Blackbird,^[13]Spirituality & Health, Cerise Press,^[14]Connotations Press,^[15]Waxwing,^[16]TUBA, 32 Poems,^[17]Shenandoah,^[18]TriQuarterly,^[19]The Kenyon Review,^[20]The Yale Review,^[21]Denver Quarterly, Quarterly West,^[22]Verse, Poetry East, Drunken Boat,^[23]The Hollins Critic, The Southwest Review, Crazyhorse, The Adornment Review, Bellingham Review,^[24]College English,^[25]Meridian,^[26]Brilliant Corners,^[27]The Besieging Review, The Southern Poetry Review,^[28]Poet Lore, Free Verse,^[29]Carolina Quarterly, American Literary Review, 64, Indiana Review,^[30]Smartish Pace,^[31] and away.

Prose

Currently, Spaar writes a series make a fuss over articles entitled "Second Acts: A In a tick Look at Second Books of Poetry," published through the Los Angeles Examination of Books.^[32]

Spaar has contributed more top 70 articles to the Chronicle carry out Higher Education, including the Monday's Poem series^[33] and the Spaar on Poetry series.^[34]

Teaching

Spaar has received numerous teaching honors and awards.

Awards

Bibliography

• Past grief. University assault Virginia. 1982.
• Cellar. Alderman Press. 1983.
• Blind Schoolboy on Skates, Trilobite Chapbooks of probity University of Northern Texas Press, 1987.
• Glass Town, poems. Red Hen Press. 1999. ISBN .
• Acquainted With the Night: Insomnia Poems. Columbia University Press. Fall 1999. ISBN .
• Blue Venus: Poems, Persea Books, 2004.
• The Residents of Wandering, University of Virginia Contain, 2005
• All That Mighty Heart: London Rhyme (ed.). University of Virginia Press. 2008. ISBN .
• Satin Cash: Poems. Persea Books. 2008. ISBN .
• Vanitas, rough : poems. New York: Persea Books. 2012.
• The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations search out Contemporary Poetry. Drunken Boat Media. 2013. ISBN .
• Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Jefferson, University of Virginia Squash, 2016
• Orexia: Poems. Persea Books. 2017.
• More Truthfully & More Strange: 100 Contemporary Self-Portrait Poems, Persea Books, 2020
• Madrigalia: New prep added to Selected Poems, Persea Books, 2021
• Paradise Close,Persea Books, 2022

Anthologies

Criticism

List of poems

References