Susan McLean

She writes in the field of formalism. According to an interview with the Poetry Foundation, she describes her love of formalism as: " I am addicted to the esoteric pleasures of rhyme and meter, and I don’t even try to deny it or camouflage it with slant rhyme". She has been portrayed as a New Formalist by many if not most noted critics of her work.

• Name — Susan McLean • Occupation — * Poet • translator • professor • Education — Harvard University (BA) Rutgers University (PhD) • Awards — Richard Wilbur Award (2009) Donald Justice Poetry Prize (2014)

• "Deep Cover"; "Desire"; "Hazard", Mezzo Cammin • "Translations of Latin epigrams by Martial", The Chimaera, January 2008 • "Vanity: On a painting by Frank Cadogan Cowper", Eratosphere • "Unscripted"; "Raw", Umbrella, Issue 2, 2007 • Translator, Martial, Selected Epigrams, University of Wisconsin Press, 2014, • Daylight Losing Time, Able Muse Press, 2026, • The Whetstone Misses the Knife, Story Line Press, 2014, • The Best Disguise, University of Evansville Press, 2009, • Holding Patterns, Finishing Line Press, 2006,

• Currents of the Universal Being: Explorations in the Literature of Energy, Texas Tech University Press, 2015, • Irresistible Sonnets, Headmistress Press, 2014, • Villanelles, Everyman's Library, 2012, • The Best of The Barefoot Muse, Barefoot Muse Press, 2011, • The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems, Red Hen Press, 2011, • Hot Sonnets, Entasis Press, 2011, • Kiss and Part: Laughing at the End of Romance and Other Entanglements, Doggerel Daze Press, 2005, • Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets University of Evansville Press, 2005,