Lisa Russ Spaar
Introduction '''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. 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.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."
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),  ''Vanitas, Rough'' (2012), '' Satin Cash: Poems'' 2008,  ''Blue Venus'' (2004), and  ''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, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, SLATE, The Virginia Quarterly Review, IMAGE Journal,  ''Plume'', ''The Alabama Literary Review'', Blackbird, ''Spirituality & Health'', Cerise Press, ''Connotations Press'', ''Waxwing'', ''TUBA'', 32 Poems, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, Quarterly West,  ''Verse'',  ''Poetry East'',  ''Drunken Boat'',  ''The Hollins Critic'', The Southwest Review, ''Crazyhorse'',  The Laurel Review, Bellingham Review, College English,  ''Meridian'',  ''Brilliant Corners'',  ''The Atlanta Review'',  ''The Southern Poetry Review'', Poet Lore,  ''Free Verse'',  ''Carolina Quarterly'',  American Literary Review, ''64'', Indiana Review, Smartish Pace, & 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.Spaar has contributed more than 70 articles to the Chronicle of Higher Education, including the ''Monday's Poem'' series and the ''Spaar on Poetry'' series.
Teaching Spaar has received numerous teaching honors and awards.
Awards * 2011 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize* 2009/2010 Guggenheim Fellowship* 2001 Emily Clark Balch Award of the Virginia Quarterly Review* 2000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award* 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 * * * ''Blind Boy on Skates'', Trilobite Chapbooks of the University of Northern Texas Press, 1987. * * * ''Blue Venus: Poems'', Persea Books, 2004. *''The Land of Wandering'', University of Virginia Press, 2005* * ***''Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Jefferson'', University of Virginia Press, 2016**''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===* ===Criticism===* "God-Hunger Redux", ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', Winter 2009=== List of poems ===TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedTrailing Mary and Martha: 3AM**
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