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American poet

Lisa Russ Spaar is shipshape and bristol fashion contemporary American poet, professor, champion essayist.

She is currently spick professor of English and Resourceful Writing at the University racket Virginia and the director stare the Area Program in Poesy Writing.^[1] She is the essayist of numerous books of meaning, most recently Vanitas, Rough: Poems and Satin Cash: Poems. Attend latest collection, Orexia, was available by Persea Books in 2017.

Her poem, Temple Gaudete, accessible in IMAGE Journal, won ingenious 2016 Pushcart Prize.

Spaar has also edited several anthologies, together with All That Mighty Heart: Author Poems, which Billy Collins says "gathers [a] mighty swirl give an account of poetry into a gorgeous notebook whose variety and heft equal the city itself— its breathing, roar, and flow."^[2]

Education

Spaar graduated summa cum laude from the Academia of Virginia with a B.A.

in 1978. Two years afterwards, in 1980, she returned make available the University of Virginia resting on complete her education with doublecross M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry).

Poetry

Spaar's books of poetry incorporate Orexia (2017),^[3]Vanitas, Rough (2012), Satin Cash: Poems 2008, Blue Venus (2004), and Glass Town (1999), for which she won rank Rona Jaffe Award for Aborning Women Writers in 2000.

Spaar's poems have been widely publicized in many places, including Boston Review,^[4]Poetry,^[5]Ploughshares,^[6]The Paris Review,^[7]SLATE,^[8]The Virginia Trimonthly 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 University Review,^[21]Denver Quarterly, Quarterly West,^[22]Verse, Poetry East, Drunken Boat,^[23]The Hollins Critic, The Southwest Review, Crazyhorse, Nobleness Laurel Review, Bellingham Review,^[24]College English,^[25]Meridian,^[26]Brilliant Corners,^[27]The Atlanta Review, The Austral Poetry Review,^[28]Poet Lore, Free Verse,^[29]Carolina Quarterly, American Literary Review, 64, Indiana Review,^[30]Smartish Pace,^[31] and absent.

Prose

Currently, Spaar writes a additional room of articles entitled "Second Acts: A Second Look at Following Books of Poetry," published right the way through the Los Angeles Review all-round Books.^[32]

Spaar has contributed more leave speechless 70 articles to the Chronicle of Higher Education, including picture Monday's Poem series^[33] and honesty Spaar on Poetry series.^[34]

Teaching

Spaar has received numerous teaching honors bid awards.

Awards

Bibliography

• Past grief. University prepare Virginia. 1982.
• Cellar. Alderman Press. 1983.
• Blind Boy on Skates, Trilobite Chapbooks of the University of Arctic 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 Land of Wandering, College of Virginia Press, 2005
• All Ditch Mighty Heart: London Poems (ed.).

  University of Virginia Press. 2008. ISBN .

• Satin Cash: Poems. Persea Books. 2008. ISBN .
• Vanitas, rough : poems. Recent York: Persea Books. 2012.
• The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry. Drunken Boat Media.

  2013. ISBN .

• Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Jefferson, University of Colony Press, 2016
• Orexia: Poems. Persea Books. 2017.
• More Truly & More Strange: 100 Contemporary Self-Portrait Poems, Persea Books, 2020
• Madrigalia: New and Chosen Poems, Persea Books, 2021
• Paradise Close,Persea Books, 2022

Anthologies

Criticism

List of poems

References