Lisa Russ Spaar

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Lisa Russ Spaar
Occupationprofessor, University of Virginia
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Virginia
Genrepoetry

Lisa Russ Spaar is a contemporary American poet, professor, and essayist. She is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and the director of the Area Program in Poetry Writing. [1] She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Vanitas, Rough: Poems and Satin Cash: Poems. Her latest collection, Orexia, was published by Persea Books in 2017. Her poem, Temple Gaudete, published in IMAGE Journal, won a 2016 Pushcart Prize.

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

Education

Spaar graduated summa cum laude from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in 1978. Two years later, in 1980, she returned to the University of Virginia to complete her education with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry).

Poetry

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

Spaar's poems have been widely 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 Laurel Review, Bellingham Review , [24] College English , [25] Meridian, [26] Brilliant Corners, [27] The Atlanta Review, The Southern Poetry Review, [28] Poet Lore , Free Verse, [29] Carolina Quarterly, American Literary Review , 64, Indiana Review , [30] Smartish Pace , [31] and elsewhere.

Prose

Currently, Spaar writes a series of articles entitled "Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry," published through the Los Angeles Review of Books . [32]

Spaar has contributed more than 70 articles to the Chronicle of 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

Anthologies

Criticism

List of poems

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Trailing Mary and Martha: 3AM
  • Spaar, Lisa Russ (2012). Vanitas, rough : poems. New York: Persea Books.
  • Spaar, Lisa Russ (January–February 2013). "Trailing Mary and Martha: 3AM". Poetry. Spirituality & Health. 15 (6): 20.

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  7. ↑ "Writers, Poetry, Poets, Verse, Creative Writing – Paris Review". www.theparisreview.org. Archived from the original on May 5, 2013.
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  14. ↑ "Cerise Press › Soul Cake". www.cerisepress.com. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
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  16. ↑ "Waxwing Literary Journal: American writers & international voices". waxwingmag.org. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
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  18. ↑ Spaar, Lisa Russ. "Lisa Russ Spaar | Volume 62, Number 1" . Retrieved October 12, 2021.
  19. ↑ "Lisa Russ Spaar". TriQuarterly. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
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  22. ↑ "Quarterly West".
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  32. ↑ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
  33. ↑ "Monday's Poem: 'My Meadow, My Twilight,' by Carl Phillips". November 14, 2010.
  34. ↑ "SPAAR ON WRITING: Cabin Fever". February 5, 2012.
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