Robin Beth Schaer
{{short description|American poet (born 1971)}}
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Robin Beth Schaer is an American poet.
Biography
Born in 1971, she graduated from Colgate University and Columbia University, and has taught at Columbia University, The New School, Cooper Union, Oberlin College and worked at the Academy of American Poets.
She is the author of one book of poetry, Shipbreaking. Her work has appeared in Rattapallax,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xJYJU2xhbIMC&q=Robin+Beth+Schaer|title=Rattapallax 11 / Incluye un CD|publisher=Lom Ediciones |isbn=9780015212483|accessdate=1 May 2015}} Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Barrow Street, Washington Square.{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtonsquarereview.com/issues.html |title=Washington Square Review |accessdate=2009-08-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529103632/http://www.washingtonsquarereview.com/issues.html |archivedate=2009-05-29 }}
She currently teaches at Case Western Reserve University and has worked as a deckhand aboard the Bounty, and lived in New York City.
Awards
- Yaddo
- Djerassi Resident Artists Program
- Saltonstall Foundation Fellowship
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship {{cite web|url=http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/jessica_treat_launch_party/|title=KGB Bar|author=KGB Bar|work=kgbbar.com|accessdate=1 May 2015}}
Works
- [http://www.anhingapress.org/poetry/shipbreaking Shipbreaking (Anhinga 2015)]
- [http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/11/02/falling-overboard/ "Falling Overboard", on the loss of HMS Bounty during Hurricane Sandy, "Paris Review", November 2012]
- [http://www.theawl.com/2010/10/three-new-poems-by-robin-beth-schaer "Flight Distance", "Tornado", and "Wildfire", "The Awl", October 21. 2010]
- [http://www.guernicamag.com/poetry/84/insomnia/ "Insomnia", Guernica, September 2005]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=HtANBEmOu9cC&dq=Robin+Beth+Schaer&pg=PA108 "Mourning"; "After Mourning", Rattapallax]
- [http://100dayspoems.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-93-robin-beth-schaer.html "Endangerment Finding", Poems for the First 100 Days, April 22, 2009]
- {{cite book| title=Amphibian| publisher=Columbia University| year=2005 }}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book | title=Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days |editor1=Rachel Zucker |editor2=Arielle Greenberg | publisher=University Of Iowa Press | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-58729-871-4 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/startingtoday1000000unse }}{{cite web|url=http://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/2010-spring/zucstato.htm|title=Starting Today|work=uiowa.edu|accessdate=1 May 2015}}
- {{cite book| title=Best New Poets, 2007| url=https://archive.org/details/bestnewpoets20070000unse| url-access=registration|editor1=Natasha Trethewey |editor2=Jeb Livingood| publisher=Samovar Press| year=2007| isbn=978-0-9766296-2-7 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.bestnewpoets.org/2007selections.html |title=Best New Poets 2007 Selections |accessdate=2012-11-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208100203/http://www.bestnewpoets.org/2007selections.html |archivedate=2012-02-08 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.robinbethschaer.com "Official Homepage"]
- [http://www.theawl.com/2010/10/three-new-poems-by-robin-beth-schaer "Three Poems By Robin Beth Schaer", "The Awl"]
- [http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/robin_beth_schaer/index.shtml "Robin Beth Schaer", Fishouse]
- [http://www.rc.umd.edu/pop-blog/?tag=robin-beth-schaer "Robin Beth Schaer reads “Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art” by John Keats", Poets on Poets]
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Category:Colgate University alumni
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:Columbia University faculty
Category:21st-century American poets
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:The New School faculty
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