Juliana Spahr | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Chillicothe, Ohio, US |
| Alma mater | Bard College University at Buffalo |
| Genre | poetry |
| Notable awards | O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize National Poetry Series Award |
Juliana Spahr (born 1966 [1] [2] ) is an American poet, critic, and editor. She is the recipient of the 2009 Hardison Poetry Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring.
Born and raised in Chillicothe, Ohio, Spahr received her BA from Bard College and her PhD from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in English.
She has taught at Siena College (1996–7), the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (1997–2003), and Mills College (2003–). With Jena Osman, she edited the arts journal Chain from 1993 to 2003. [3] In 2012, Spahr co-edited A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism with Mills colleague and fellow-poet Stephanie Young. [4]
Both Spahr's critical and scholarly studies, i.e., Everybody’s Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (2001), and her poetry have shown Spahr's commitment to fostering a "value of reading" as a communal, democratic, open process. [5] Her work therefore "distinguishes itself because she writes poems for which her critical work calls." [6] In addition to teaching and writing poetry, Spahr is also an active editor. [5]
Spahr's participation in the 2011 Occupy Movement is chronicled in her 2015 book That Winter The Wolf Came . [7] According to Spahr, she spent time in the encampments and participated in protests, although she and her son "never spent the night." [8] Her work examines social issues, including the repercussions of the BP oil spill, the global impact of September 11 attacks, capitalism, and climate change. She uses poetry as a mechanism to provide cultural recognition and representation to social movements and political actions. [9]
Following the Occupy Movement, the police shootings of Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, and Mike Brown, and the 2009 California college tuition hike protests, Spahr founded the publishing project Commune Editions, along with Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover. [10] The project was founded with the intention to publish poetry as a companion to political action. [10]
Spahr received the National Poetry Series Award for her first collection of poetry, Response (1996). [5]
She is the recipient of the 2009 Hardison Poetry Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring. [11]
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500–1750) in Britain and Europe. The library was established by Henry Clay Folger in association with his wife, Emily Jordan Folger. It opened in 1932, two years after his death.
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