Visiting Writer Lisa Russ Spaar

Join us Tuesday, March 26th, as visiting writer Lisa Russ Spaar visits the UNT campus. Her reading will be in the Willis Library Forum and begins at 7pm.

Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of many collections of poetry, including Glass Town (1999, Red Hen Press), Blue Venus (Persea, 2004), Satin Cash (Persea, 2008), and Vanitas, Rough (Persea, 2012). She is the editor of Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems, All that Mighty Heart: London Poems, and a collection of her essays, The Hide and Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry, a selection of her commentaries for The Chronicle of Higher Education, will be published in early March 2013. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Award, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, and Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, and the Library of Virginia Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry series, Poetry, Boston Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Slate, Shenandoah, The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other journals and quarterlies. Her commentaries, essays, reviews, and columns about poetry have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. Spaar writes a regular column about second books of poetry for the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.