Lisa Russ Spaar Explained

Lisa Russ Spaar
Occupation:professor, University of Virginia
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:University of Virginia
Genre:poetry
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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.

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

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Trailing Mary and Martha: 3AM
  • Book: Spaar, Lisa Russ . Vanitas, rough : poems . New York . Persea Books . 2012 .
  • Spaar, Lisa Russ . Jan–Feb 2013 . Trailing Mary and Martha: 3AM . Poetry . Spirituality & Health . 15 . 6 . 20.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Department of English . Engl.virginia.edu . October 12, 2021.
  2. http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-3573.xml?q=all%20that%20...
  3. Web site: Persea Books. Persea Books. October 12, 2021.
  4. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar. July 12, 2013. Boston Review. October 12, 2021.
  5. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar. October 11, 2021. Poetry Foundation. October 12, 2021.
  6. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar | Ploughshares. www.pshares.org. October 12, 2021.
  7. Web site: Writers, Poetry, Poets, Verse, Creative Writing – Paris Review. www.theparisreview.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20130505055041/http://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/author/ . May 5, 2013.
  8. "The Irises". Lisa. Spaar. May 24, 2011. October 12, 2021. Slate.
  9. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar . VQR Online . June 26, 2007 . October 12, 2021.
  10. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar. Image Journal. October 12, 2021.
  11. Web site: The Plume Anthology of Poetry 2013. MadHat Press. October 12, 2021.
  12. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar . Alabama Literary Review . October 23, 2022.
  13. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar, Blackbird. blackbird.vcu.edu. October 12, 2021.
  14. Web site: Cerise Press › Soul Cake. www.cerisepress.com. October 12, 2021.
  15. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar - Poetry. ConnotationPress.com. October 12, 2021.
  16. Web site: Waxwing Literary Journal: American writers & international voices.. waxwingmag.org. October 12, 2021.
  17. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar, Going to Bed, 32 Poems 4.2 . July 27, 2015 . September 5, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150905095028/http://www.32poems.com/issues/lisa-russ-spaar-going-to-bed . dead .
  18. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar | Volume 62, Number 1. Lisa Russ. Spaar. October 12, 2021.
  19. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar. TriQuarterly. October 12, 2021.
  20. Web site: Kismet. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051225/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/poems/44723891/kismet. March 4, 2016. March 4, 2016. October 12, 2021.
  21. Web site: Yale Review | vol. 93, no. 3 . July 27, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130201185944/http://www.yale.edu/yalereview/backissues/933.html . February 1, 2013 . dead .
  22. Web site: Quarterly West.
  23. Web site: Drunken Boat | Lisa Russ Spaar . July 27, 2015 . March 4, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083412/http://www.drunkenboat.com/db3/spaar/spaar.html . dead .
  24. Web site: Issue 42. December 2, 1997.
  25. Web site: NCTE - National Council of Teachers of English.
  26. Web site: Verse Daily: No Picnic by Lisa Russ Spaar. www.versedaily.org. October 12, 2021.
  27. Web site: Sample Texts.
  28. Web site: Volume 38, Issue 1. October 12, 2021.
  29. Web site: Free Verse - Lisa Russ Sparr . August 28, 2009 . July 10, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090710014010/http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Spring_2006/poems/L_Sparr.html . dead .
  30. Web site: Blackberries. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054625/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/poems/19989665/blackberries. March 4, 2016. March 4, 2016. October 12, 2021.
  31. Web site: Media | Smartish Pace (A poetry review) . July 27, 2015 . September 11, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150911084142/http://www.smartishpace.com/media/video_poetry_readings/ . dead .
  32. Web site: Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles Review of Books. October 12, 2021.
  33. Web site: Monday's Poem: 'My Meadow, My Twilight,' by Carl Phillips . November 14, 2010 .
  34. Web site: SPAAR ON WRITING: Cabin Fever . February 5, 2012 .
  35. Web site: Best Channel Letters Louisville, KY | Channel Letter Signage Near Me. www.louisvillesignage.com. October 12, 2021.
  36. Web site: Lisa Russ Spaar - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . August 28, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604000440/http://www.gf.org/fellows/16469-lisa-russ-spaar . June 4, 2011 .
  37. News: Book Report. Weeks. Linton. November 12, 2000. The Washington Post. July 10, 2015.

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