Juliana Spahr

Juliana Spahr
Born1966 (age 57–58)
Chillicothe, Ohio, US
Alma materBard College
University at Buffalo
Genrepoetry
Notable awardsO. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
National Poetry Series Award

Juliana Spahr (born 1966[1][2]) is an American poet, critic, and editor. She is the recipient of the 2009 Hardison Poetry Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring.[3]

Both Spahr's critical and scholarly studies, i.e., Everybody’s Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (2001), and her poetry have shown Spahr's commitment to fostering a "value of reading" as a communal, democratic, open process.[4] Her work therefore "distinguishes itself because she writes poems for which her critical work calls."[5] In addition to teaching and writing poetry, Spahr is also an active editor.[4] Spahr received the National Poetry Series Award for her first collection of poetry, Response (1996).[4]

  1. ^ Spahr, Juliana (2005-01-19). "Juliana Spahr". Juliana Spahr. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  2. ^ "Juliana Spahr". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-01-14. Retrieved 2018-01-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ Juliana Spahr Wins Prestigious Hardison Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library
  4. ^ a b c O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize: Juliana Spahr Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine note that the 2009 judges were Claudia Rankine and Joshua Weiner.
  5. ^ from the essay "All/Together Now: Writing the Space of Collectivities in the Poetry of Juliana Spahr", American Women Poets in the 21st Century, Wesleyan University Press, 2002.