Roberta Spear Explained

Roberta Spear
Birth Place:	Hanford, California, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American

Roberta Spear (1948 in Hanford, California – 2003) was an American poet.

Life

Her work appeared in Field, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Missouri Review. She lived in Fresno, California.^[1]

Awards

• Ingram Merrill Fellowship^[2]
• 1979 National Poetry Series

Works

• "The Workout", The Atlantic, December 2002
• "Conversions", Ploughshares, Winter 1988
• Book: Silks: Poems. registration. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1980 .
• Talking to Water (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985)
• Book: The pilgrim among us. Wesleyan University Press. 1991. 978-0-8195-1200-0 .
• Book: A sweetness rising: new and selected poems. Philip Levine. Great Valley Books. 2007. 978-1-59714-063-8 .

Anthologies

• Book: Highway 99: a literary journey through California's Great Central Valley. registration. 340. Roberta Spear.. Some Voices. Stan Yogi. Heyday Books. 1996. 978-0-930588-82-3 .
• Book: The Morrow anthology of younger American poets. Dave Smith . David Bottoms. Photographer David Bottoms. Quill. 1985. 978-0-688-03450-4.
• Book: How much earth: the Fresno poets. Christopher Buckley . David Oliveira . M. L. Williams. Roundhouse Press. 2001. 978-0-9666691-7-6 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=j2a30L32SCEC&q=Roberta+Spear&pg=PT1. Chestnuts for Verdi. The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry. Michael Collier. Wesleyan University Press. 1995. 978-0-8195-1229-1 .

External links

• "Roberta Spear (1948-2003)", The Washington Post, June 1, 2003
• "Article: Roberta Spear (1948-2003)", The Washington Post

Notes and References

1. Web site: Roberta L. Spear.
2. Web site: Issues | Ploughshares. www.pshares.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20071012080342/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2579 . October 12, 2007.