Lisa Russ Spaar
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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.engl.virginia.edu/people/lrs9e |title=Department of English |publisher=Engl.virginia.edu |date= |accessdate=October 12, 2021}} She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently [http://www.perseabooks.com/detail.php?bookID=100 Vanitas, Rough: Poems] and [http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780892553433 Satin Cash: Poems]. Her latest collection, Orexia, was published by [http://www.perseabooks.com Persea Books] in 2017. Her poem, [http://imagejournal.org/article/temple-gaudete/ Temple Gaudete], published in IMAGE Journal, won a 2016 Pushcart Prize.
Spaar has also edited several anthologies, including [http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-3573.xml?q=all%20that%20... 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."http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-3573.xml?q=all%20that%20... {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074349/http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-3573.xml?q=all%20that%20 |date=March 4, 2016 }}
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),{{cite web|url=https://www.perseabooks.com/|title=Persea Books|website=Persea Books|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} [http://www.perseabooks.com/detail.php?bookID=100 Vanitas, Rough] (2012), [http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780892553433 Satin Cash: Poems] 2008, [http://www.perseabooks.com/detail.php?bookID=23 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,{{cite web|url=https://bostonreview.net/author/lisa-russ-spaar|title=Lisa Russ Spaar|date=July 12, 2013|website=Boston Review|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} Poetry,{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lisa-russ-spaar|title=Lisa Russ Spaar|date=October 11, 2021|website=Poetry Foundation|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} Ploughshares,{{cite web|url=https://www.pshares.org/authors/lisa-russ-spaar|title=Lisa Russ Spaar | Ploughshares|website=www.pshares.org|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} The Paris Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/author/#list |title= Writers, Poetry, Poets, Verse, Creative Writing – Paris Review|website=www.theparisreview.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505055041/http://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/author/ |archive-date=May 5, 2013}} SLATE,{{cite journal|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2011/05/the_irises.html|title="The Irises"|first=Lisa|last=Spaar|date=May 24, 2011|accessdate=October 12, 2021|journal=Slate}} The Virginia Quarterly Review,{{cite web|url=http://www.vqronline.org/people/lisa-russ-spaar |title=Lisa Russ Spaar |publisher=VQR Online |date=June 26, 2007 |accessdate=October 12, 2021}} IMAGE Journal,{{cite web|url=https://imagejournal.org/artist/lisa-russ-spaar/|title=Lisa Russ Spaar|website=Image Journal|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} [http://plumepoetry.com/ Plume],{{cite web|url=https://madhat-press.com/products/the-plume-anthology-of-poetry-2013|title=The Plume Anthology of Poetry 2013|website=MadHat Press|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} The Alabama Literary Review,{{cite web |title=Lisa Russ Spaar |url=http://spectrum.troy.edu/alr/v17/v17Spaar.pdf |publisher=Alabama Literary Review |access-date=October 23, 2022}} Blackbird,{{cite web|url=https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v10n2/poetry/spaar_l/index.shtml|title=Lisa Russ Spaar, Blackbird|website=blackbird.vcu.edu|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} Spirituality & Health, Cerise Press,{{cite web|url=http://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/soul-cake|title=Cerise Press › Soul Cake|website=www.cerisepress.com|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} Connotations Press,{{cite web|url=https://www.connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/2012/september-2012/1527-lisa-russ-spaar-poetry|title=Lisa Russ Spaar - Poetry|website=ConnotationPress.com|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} Waxwing,{{cite web|url=http://waxwingmag.org/archive/02/writing.php?item=62|title=Waxwing Literary Journal: American writers & international voices.|website=waxwingmag.org|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} TUBA, 32 Poems,{{Cite web |url=http://www.32poems.com/issues/lisa-russ-spaar-going-to-bed |title=Lisa Russ Spaar, Going to Bed, 32 Poems 4.2 |access-date=July 27, 2015 |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905095028/http://www.32poems.com/issues/lisa-russ-spaar-going-to-bed |url-status=dead }} Shenandoah,{{cite web|url=https://shenandoahliterary.org/621/author/lspaar/|title=Lisa Russ Spaar | Volume 62, Number 1|first=Lisa Russ|last=Spaar|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} TriQuarterly,{{cite web|url=https://www.triquarterly.org/contributors/lisa-russ-spaar|title=Lisa Russ Spaar|website=TriQuarterly|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} The Kenyon Review,{{cite web|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/poems/44723891/kismet|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051225/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/poems/44723891/kismet|archivedate=March 4, 2016|title=Kismet|date=March 4, 2016|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} The Yale Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/yalereview/backissues/933.html |title=Yale Review | vol. 93, no. 3 |access-date=July 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201185944/http://www.yale.edu/yalereview/backissues/933.html |archive-date=February 1, 2013 |url-status=dead }} Denver Quarterly, Quarterly West,{{cite web|url=http://quarterlywest.com/?p=850|title = Quarterly West}} [http://versemag.blogspot.com/ Verse], [http://poetryeast.org/ Poetry East], [http://www.drunkenboat.com/ Drunken Boat],{{Cite web |url=http://www.drunkenboat.com/db3/spaar/spaar.html |title=Drunken Boat | Lisa Russ Spaar |access-date=July 27, 2015 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083412/http://www.drunkenboat.com/db3/spaar/spaar.html |url-status=dead }} [https://www.hollins.edu/who-we-are/news-media/hollins-critic/ The Hollins Critic], The Southwest Review, Crazyhorse, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140819133828/http://catpages.nwmissouri.edu/m/tlr/ The Laurel Review], Bellingham Review,{{cite web|url=http://bhreview.org/1997/12/01/winter-19971998-issue-42/|title = Issue 42|date = December 2, 1997}} College English,{{cite web|url=http://www.ncte.org/journals/ce/issues/v59-4|title = NCTE - National Council of Teachers of English}} [http://www.readmeridian.org/ Meridian],{{cite web|url=http://www.versedaily.org/2007/nopicnic.shtml|title=Verse Daily: No Picnic by Lisa Russ Spaar|website=www.versedaily.org|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} [http://www.lycoming.edu/brilliantCorners/ Brilliant Corners],{{cite web|url=http://www.lycoming.edu/brilliantCorners/sample.aspx|title = Sample Texts}} [http://www.atlantareview.com/ The Atlanta Review], [http://www.southernpoetryreview.com The Southern Poetry Review],{{cite web|url=https://www.southernpoetryreview.org/shop/volume-38-issue-1|title=Volume 38, Issue 1|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} Poet Lore, [http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/ Free Verse],{{Cite web |url=http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Spring_2006/poems/L_Sparr.html |title=Free Verse - Lisa Russ Sparr |access-date=August 28, 2009 |archive-date=July 10, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710014010/http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Spring_2006/poems/L_Sparr.html |url-status=dead }} [http://thecarolinaquarterly.com/ Carolina Quarterly], American Literary Review, 64, Indiana Review,{{cite web|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/poems/19989665/blackberries|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054625/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/poems/19989665/blackberries|archivedate=March 4, 2016|title=Blackberries|date=March 4, 2016|accessdate=October 12, 2021}} Smartish Pace,{{Cite web |url=http://www.smartishpace.com/media/video_poetry_readings/ |title=Media | Smartish Pace (A poetry review) |access-date=July 27, 2015 |archive-date=September 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911084142/http://www.smartishpace.com/media/video_poetry_readings/ |url-status=dead }} and 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.{{cite web|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/lisa-russ-spaar/|title=Los Angeles Review of Books|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|accessdate=October 12, 2021}}
Spaar has contributed more than 70 articles to the Chronicle of Higher Education, including the Monday's Poem series{{cite web | url=http://chronicle.com/blogs/arts/mondays-poem-my-meadow-my-twilight-by-carl-phillips/27908 | title=Monday's Poem: 'My Meadow, My Twilight,' by Carl Phillips | date=November 14, 2010 }} and the Spaar on Poetry series.{{cite web | url=http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/spaar-on-writing-cabin-fever/43610 | title=SPAAR ON WRITING: Cabin Fever | date=February 5, 2012 }}
Teaching
Spaar has received numerous teaching honors and awards.
Awards
- 2011 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize{{cite web|url=https://www.louisvillesignage.com/channel-letters/|title=Best Channel Letters Louisville, KY | Channel Letter Signage Near Me|website=www.louisvillesignage.com|accessdate=October 12, 2021}}
- 2009/2010 Guggenheim Fellowship{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/16469-lisa-russ-spaar |title=Lisa Russ Spaar - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=August 28, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604000440/http://www.gf.org/fellows/16469-lisa-russ-spaar |archive-date=June 4, 2011 }}
- 2001 Emily Clark Balch Award of the Virginia Quarterly Review
- 2000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2000/11/12/book-report/621188b3-c0d3-4ba0-ad40-6dee17c41797/|title=Book Report|last=Weeks|first=Linton|date=November 12, 2000|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=July 10, 2015}}
- 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
- {{cite book| title=Past grief| publisher=University of Virginia| year=1982 }}
- {{cite book| title=Cellar| publisher=Alderman Press| year=1983 }}
- Blind Boy on Skates, Trilobite Chapbooks of the University of Northern Texas Press, 1987.
- {{cite book| title=Glass Town, poems| publisher=Red Hen Press| year=1999| isbn=978-1-888996-18-0 }}
- {{cite book| title=Acquainted With the Night: Insomnia Poems| publisher=Columbia University Press| date=Fall 1999| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SbYbngxOpH8C&q=Lisa+Russ+Spaar| isbn=978-0-231-11544-5 }}
- Blue Venus: Poems, Persea Books, 2004.
- The Land of Wandering, University of Virginia Press, 2005
- {{cite book| title=All That Mighty Heart: London Poems (ed.)| publisher=University of Virginia Press| year=2008| isbn=978-0-8139-2717-6 }}
- {{cite book| title=Satin Cash: Poems| publisher=Persea Books| year=2008| isbn=978-0-89255-343-3 }}
- {{cite book | title=Vanitas, rough : poems| location=New York |publisher=Persea Books |year=2012 }}
- {{cite book|title =The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry|publisher= Drunken Boat Media|year= 2013 |isbn=978-0988241602 }}
- Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Jefferson, University of Virginia Press, 2016
- {{cite book | title=Orexia: Poems| publisher=Persea Books |year=2017}}
- More Truly & More Strange: 100 Contemporary Self-Portrait Poems, Persea Books, 2020
- Madrigalia: New and Selected Poems, Persea Books, 2021
- Paradise Close,Persea Books, 2022
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=Best American Poetry, 2008|editor1=Charles Wright |editor2=David Lehman| publisher=Simon and Schuster| year=2008| isbn=978-0-7432-9975-6| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericanpoet00char}}
=Criticism=
- [http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2009/winter/spaar-god-hunger/ "God-Hunger Redux", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2009]
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