Susan McLean explained

Susan McLean
Nationality:	American
Education:	Harvard University (BA) Rutgers University (PhD)
Awards:	Richard Wilbur Award (2009) Donald Justice Poetry Prize (2014)

Susan McLean is an American poet, a translator of poetry,^[1] and a retired professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota.^[2]

She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English in 1975 and from Rutgers University with a PhD in 1990.^{[3] [4]} Her work has appeared in Kalliope,^[5] Atlanta Review, The Formalist,^[6] Iambs and Trochees, Arion,^[7] Measure, The Classical Outlook, Literary Imagination.^[8] She writes in the field of formalism. According to an interview with the Poetry Foundation, she describes her love of formalism as: " I am addicted to the esoteric pleasures of rhyme and meter, and I don’t even try to deny it or camouflage it with slant rhyme". She has been portrayed as a New Formalist by many if not most noted critics of her work.^[9]

Awards

• 2015 Finalist, PEN Center USA Translation Award^[10]
• 2014 Donald Justice Poetry Prize
• 2009 Richard Wilbur Award
• 2006 the Leslie Mellichamp Prize from The Lyric
• 2004 McKnight Artist Fellowship/Loft Award in Poetry

Works

• "Deep Cover"; "Desire"; "Hazard", Mezzo Cammin
• "Translations of Latin epigrams by Martial", The Chimaera, January 2008
• "Vanity: On a painting by Frank Cadogan Cowper", Eratosphere
• "Unscripted"; "Raw", Umbrella, Issue 2, 2007
• Translator, Martial, Selected Epigrams, University of Wisconsin Press, 2014,
• The Whetstone Misses the Knife, Story Line Press, 2014,
• The Best Disguise, University of Evansville Press, 2009,
• Holding Patterns, Finishing Line Press, 2006,

Anthologies

• Currents of the Universal Being: Explorations in the Literature of Energy, Texas Tech University Press, 2015,
• Irresistible Sonnets, Headmistress Press, 2014,
• Villanelles, Everyman's Library, 2012,
• The Best of The Barefoot Muse, Barefoot Muse Press, 2011,
• The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems, Red Hen Press, 2011,
• Hot Sonnets, Entasis Press, 2011,
• Kiss and Part: Laughing at the End of Romance and Other Entanglements, Doggerel Daze Press, 2005,
• Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets University of Evansville Press, 2005,

Notes and References

1. Web site: MARTIAL: SELECTED EPIGRAMS | Classics for All Reviews . 2016-09-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161014034836/https://classicsforallreviews.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/martial-selected-epigrams/ . 2016-10-14 .
2. Web site: SMSU - SMSU Directory. https://archive.today/20120805142412/http://www.smsu.edu/directory/index.cfm?dir=3&progid=91. dead. 2012-08-05. www.smsu.edu. 2016-03-24.
3. Web site: Alumni Poets.
4. Web site: Alumni Poets. english.rutgers.edu. 2016-03-24.
5. Book: Kalliope. 1992-01-01. Jacksonville Women's Poetry Collective, Center for the Continuing Education of Women, Florida Junior College at Jacksonville. en.
6. Book: The Formalist. 2001-01-01. The Formalist. en.
7. Book: Arion. 2003-01-01. Trustees of Boston University. en.
8. Book: Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. 2007-01-01. The Association. en.
9. Web site: Why No One Wants to be a New Formalist . A. E. . Stallings . A. E. Stallings . 29 November 2007 . 27 July 2021.
10. Web site: 2015 Literary Award Winners & Finalists | PEN Center USA . 2015-12-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160116011403/https://penusa.org/2015-award-winners-finalists . 2016-01-16 .