Lisa Russ Spaar
Encyclopedia
Life
She graduated from University of VirginiaUniversity of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
(summa cum laude), with a B.A. and M.F.A.
She teaches at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
.
Her work has appeaered in The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, The Paris Review, Sonora Review, The Southwest Review.
Awards
- 2009/2010 Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
- 2001 Emily Clark Balch Award of the Virginia Quarterly Review
- 2000 Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers
- 1997 Finalist, National Poetry SeriesNational Poetry SeriesThe National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program.Every year since 1979 it has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry...
- 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
Works
- "Lullabye", Blackbird, Fall 2003
- "New Year's Eve", Blackbird, Fall 2003
- "The Insomnia of Hildegarde of Bingen", Blackbird, Fall 2003
- "The Ice House"; "Hammock", Cortland Review, November 2007
- "I Consider My Mother's Mind", Slate, July 10, 2007
- "Virginia Woolf's Insomnia", Drunken Boat
- "Mesmer's Insomnia", Drunken Boat
- "Portrait of Insomnia with Giorgio de Chirico", Drunken Boat
- "mortification (2)"; "mortification (3)"; "So"; "Fawn", Free Verse, Spring 2006
- "Love Poem", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1986
- "Keats House", Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2005
- 'After John Donne's "To his Mistress Going to Bed"', poets.org
- Blue Venus: Poems, Persea Books, 2004.
- Blind Boy on Skates, Trilobite Chapbooks of the University of Northern Texas Press, 1987.
Criticism
Review
Lisa Russ Spaar’s poem "I Consider My Mother's Mind" makes me think of something that that has been suddenly and violently emptied after a long time of neglect, a wallet crammed with too many business cards, gummed encrusted post it notes, receipts, expired credit cards and coupons, small scraps of paper with phone numbers attached to first names whose faces you've forgotten.