Susan McLean
Susan McLean is an American poet, a translator of poetry, and a retired professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota. She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English in 1975 and from Rutgers University with a PhD in 1990. Her work has appeared in Kalliope, Atlanta Review, The Formalist, Iambs and Trochees, Arion, Measure, The Classical Outlook, Literary Imagination.
Susan McLean
- Name
- Susan McLean
- Occupation
- * Poet
- Education
- Harvard University (BA) Rutgers University (PhD)
- Awards
- Richard Wilbur Award (2009) Donald Justice Poetry Prize (2014)
- Born
- 1953
- Nationality
- United States
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Biography
Biography
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.
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• Name — Susan McLean • Occupation — * Poet • translator • professor • Education — Harvard University (BA) Rutgers University (PhD) • Awards — Richard Wilbur Award (2009) Donald Justice Poetry Prize (2014)
Works
Works
• "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,
Anthologies
Anthologies
• 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,
Awards
• 2015 Finalist, PEN Center USA Translation Award • 2014 Donald Justice Poetry Prize • 2009 Richard Wilbur Award • 2006 the Leslie Mellichamp Prize from The Lyric • 2004 McKnight Artist Fellowship/Loft Award in Poetry
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- 1.MARTIAL: SELECTED EPIGRAMS | Classics for All Reviews.
- 2.SMSU - SMSU Directory. www.smsu.edu.
- 3.Alumni Poets.
- 4.Alumni Poets. english.rutgers.edu.
- 5.Jacksonville Women's Poetry Collective, Center for the Continuing Education of Women, Florida Junior College at Jacksonville. Kalliope. 1992-01-01.
- 6.The Formalist. 2001-01-01.
- 7.Trustees of Boston University. Arion. 2003-01-01.
- 8.The Association. Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. 2007-01-01.
- 9.Stallings, A. E. Why No One Wants to be a New Formalist. 29 November 2007.
- 10.2015 Literary Award Winners & Finalists | PEN Center USA.
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