Lisa Russ Spaar

Lisa Russ Spaar
Lisa Russ Spaar
Occupation	professor, University of Virginia
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Virginia
Genre	poetry

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. The Virginia Quarterly Review describes her work as

"the perfect marriage of the realism of William Carlos Williams . . . and the sleepless heaven-seeking of such cloistered ecstatics as Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins."

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 [https://www.amazon.com/GLASS-TOWN-LISA-SPAAR/dp/1888996188 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

2011 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize [35]
2009/2010 Guggenheim Fellowship [36]
2001 Emily Clark Balch Award of the Virginia Quarterly Review
2000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award[37]
1997 Finalist, National Poetry Series
1996 Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artists Award
1978 Academy of American Poets Prize - University of Virginia
1980 Hoyns Fellowship in Poetry - University of Virginia

Bibliography

Past grief. University of Virginia. 1982.
Cellar. Alderman Press. 1983.
Blind Boy on Skates, Trilobite Chapbooks of the University of Northern Texas Press, 1987.
Glass Town, poems. Red Hen Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-888996-18-0.
Acquainted With the Night: Insomnia Poems. Columbia University Press. Fall 1999. ISBN 978-0-231-11544-5.
Blue Venus: Poems, Persea Books, 2004.
All That Mighty Heart: London Poems (ed.). University of Virginia Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8139-2717-6.
Satin Cash: Poems. Persea Books. 2008. ISBN 978-0-89255-343-3.
Vanitas, rough : poems. New York: Persea Books. 2012.
Orexia: Poems. Persea Books. 2017.

Anthologies

Charles Wright; David Lehman, eds. (2008). Best American Poetry, 2008. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9975-6.

Criticism

"God-Hunger Redux", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2009

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/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.

gollark: Does that even rhyme?Um... BLIME!

gollark: This is totally a rapA rap is what it is chap

gollark: I made an automatic rap generation programIt works by appending an unrelated word which rhymes with the end of the previous line amTo every second lineThis totally counts as rap mineVery valid rap indeedI win esolangs now speed

gollark: Nobody can diss my rhymesBecause they are made from fresh limesThis is the next lineApparently that rhymes with pine

gollark: My rhymes are strangeBut I'm going to rhyme with orængeI'm using a rhyming dictionaryOnline, not from the libraryTechnically it's an API for word association queriesThere exists a thing known as a "geometric series"

References

External links

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[1] ttp://www.engl.virginia.edu/people/lrs9e

[2] ttp://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-3573.xml?q=all%20that%20...

[3] ttp://www.perseabooks.com/

[4] ttp://bostonreview.net/author/lisa-russ-spaar

[5] ttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lisa-russ-spaar

[6] ttps://www.pshares.org/authors/lisa-russ-spaar

[7] ttp://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/author/#list Archived 2013-05-05 at the Wayback Machine

[8] ttp://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2011/05/the_irises.html

[9] ttp://www.vqronline.org/people/lisa-russ-spaar

[10] ttp://imagejournal.org/artist/lisa-russ-spaar/

[11] ttp://madhat-press.com/products/the-plume-anthology-of-poetry-2013

[12] ttp://spectrum.troy.edu/alr/v17/v17Spaar.pdf

[13] ttp://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v10n2/poetry/spaar_l/index.shtml

[14] ttp://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/soul-cake

[15] ttp://www.connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/2012/september-2012/1527-lisa-russ-spaar-poetry

[16] ttp://waxwingmag.org/archive/02/writing.php?item=62

[17] ttp://www.32poems.com/issues/lisa-russ-spaar-going-to-bed

[18] ttp://shenandoahliterary.org/621/author/lspaar/

[19] ttp://www.triquarterly.org/contributors/lisa-russ-spaar

[20] ttp://connection.ebscohost.com/c/poems/44723891/kismet

[21] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2015-07-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[22] ttp://quarterlywest.com/?p=850

[23] ttp://www.drunkenboat.com/db3/spaar/spaar.html

[24] ttp://bhreview.org/1997/12/01/winter-19971998-issue-42/

[25] ttp://www.ncte.org/journals/ce/issues/v59-4

[26] ttp://www.versedaily.org/2007/nopicnic.shtml

[27] ttp://www.lycoming.edu/brilliantCorners/sample.aspx

[28] ttp://www.southernpoetryreview.com/shop/volume-38-issue-1/

[29] ttp://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Spring_2006/poems/L_Sparr.html

[30] ttp://connection.ebscohost.com/c/poems/19989665/blackberries

[31] ttp://www.smartishpace.com/media/video_poetry_readings/

[32] ttps://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/lisa-russ-spaar

[33] ttp://chronicle.com/blogs/arts/mondays-poem-my-meadow-my-twilight-by-carl-phillips/27908

[34] ttp://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/spaar-on-writing-cabin-fever/43610

[35] ttp://www.weinsteinpoetryprize.com/recipients.html#spaar

[36] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-08-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[37] Weeks, Linton (12 November 2000). "Book Report". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 July 2015.