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] & 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 (Jan–Feb 2013). "Trailing Mary and Martha: 3AM". Poetry. Spirituality & Health. 15 (6): 20.

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  5. ↑ "Lisa Russ Spaar". Poetry Foundation. Oct 11, 2021. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Lisa Russ Spaar | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Writers, Poetry, Poets, Verse, Creative Writing – Paris Review". www.theparisreview.org. Archived from the original on 2013-05-05.
  8. ↑ Spaar, Lisa (May 24, 2011). ""The Irises"". Slate. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Lisa Russ Spaar". VQR Online. 2007-06-26. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
  10. ↑ "Lisa Russ Spaar". Image Journal. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  11. ↑ "The Plume Anthology of Poetry 2013". MadHat Press. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  12. ↑ http://spectrum.troy.edu/alr/v17/v17Spaar.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  13. ↑ "Lisa Russ Spaar, Blackbird". blackbird.vcu.edu. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  14. ↑ "Cerise Press › Soul Cake". www.cerisepress.com. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  15. ↑ "Lisa Russ Spaar - Poetry". ConnotationPress.com. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  16. ↑ "Waxwing Literary Journal: American writers & international voices". waxwingmag.org. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  17. ↑ "Lisa Russ Spaar, Going to Bed, 32 Poems 4.2". Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
  18. ↑ Spaar, Lisa Russ. "Lisa Russ Spaar | Volume 62, Number 1" . Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  19. ↑ "Lisa Russ Spaar". TriQuarterly. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  20. ↑ "Kismet". Mar 4, 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  21. ↑ "Yale Review | vol. 93, no. 3". Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
  22. ↑ "Quarterly West".
  23. ↑ "Drunken Boat | Lisa Russ Spaar". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
  24. ↑ "Issue 42". 2 December 1997.
  25. ↑ "NCTE - National Council of Teachers of English".
  26. ↑ "Verse Daily: No Picnic by Lisa Russ Spaar". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  27. ↑ "Sample Texts".
  28. ↑ "Volume 38, Issue 1" . Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  29. ↑ "Free Verse - Lisa Russ Sparr". Archived from the original on 2009-07-10. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
  30. ↑ "Blackberries". Mar 4, 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  31. ↑ "Media | Smartish Pace (A poetry review)". Archived from the original on 2015-09-11. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
  32. ↑ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  33. ↑ http://chronicle.com/blogs/arts/mondays-poem-my-meadow-my-twilight-by-carl-phillips/27908 [ bare URL ]
  34. ↑ http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/spaar-on-writing-cabin-fever/43610 [ bare URL ]
  35. ↑ "Best Channel Letters Louisville, KY | Channel Letter Signage Near Me". www.louisvillesignage.com. Retrieved Oct 12, 2021.
  36. ↑ "Lisa Russ Spaar - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
  37. ↑ Weeks, Linton (12 November 2000). "Book Report". The Washington Post . Retrieved 10 July 2015.
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