{"id":1778,"date":"2022-01-04T17:36:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:14:28","slug":"2-17-2022-lisa-russ-spaar-poetry-reading-7-pm-face-masks-required-location-tba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/2-17-2022-lisa-russ-spaar-poetry-reading-7-pm-face-masks-required-location-tba\/","title":{"rendered":"(2\/17\/2022) Lisa Russ Spaar, poetry reading: 7 PM, Face Masks Required, Buttrick 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1715 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/41DkCNZ2ovS._SX324_BO1204203200_-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>Lisa Russ Spaar\u00a0<\/strong>is the author\/editor of over twelve books of poetry and criticism, including, most recently,\u00a0<em>More Truly and More Strange:\u00a0 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems<\/em>\u00a0(2020) and\u00a0<em>Madrigalia:\u00a0\u00a0New &amp; Selected Poems\u00a0<\/em>(November 2021).\u00a0\u00a0Her debut\u00a0novel,\u00a0<em>Paradise Close,\u00a0<\/em>will appear in April 2022.\u00a0\u00a0Her honors include a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, and the Library of Virginia Award for Poetry.\u00a0\u00a0She was a 2014 Finalist for the National Book Circle Critics Award for Excellence in Reviewing and has served as the Beall Visiting Poet in Residence at Baylor University for a week each year since 2018. \u00a0Her poems have been recently published in <em>Poetry, The New Yorker, IMAGE, The Yale Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, American Chordata<\/em>, and elsewhere. \u00a0\u00a0Her commentaries, reviews, and columns about poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in\u00a0<em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>, and elsewhere.\u00a0\u00a0She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at the University of Virginia, where for many years she directed the MFA program.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.lisarussspaar.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Russ Spaar\u00a0is the author\/editor of over twelve books of poetry and criticism, including, most recently,\u00a0More Truly and More Strange:\u00a0 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems\u00a0(2020) and\u00a0Madrigalia:\u00a0\u00a0New &amp; Selected Poems\u00a0(November 2021).\u00a0\u00a0Her debut\u00a0novel,\u00a0Paradise Close,\u00a0will appear in April 2022.\u00a0\u00a0Her honors include a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}