Susan McLean
American poet
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Susan McLean is an American poet, a translator of poetry,[1] and a retired professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota.[2]
- Poet
- translator
- professor
Rutgers University (PhD)
Donald Justice Poetry Prize (2014)
Susan McLean | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Rutgers University (PhD) |
| Notable awards | Richard Wilbur Award (2009) Donald Justice Poetry Prize (2014) |
She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English in 1975 and from Rutgers University with a PhD in 1990.[3][4] Her work has appeared in Kalliope,[5] Atlanta Review, The Formalist,[6] Iambs and Trochees, Arion,[7] Measure, The Classical Outlook, Literary Imagination.[8] 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.[9]
Awards
- 2015 Finalist, PEN Center USA Translation Award[10]
- 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
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, ISBN 978-0299301743
- The Whetstone Misses the Knife, Story Line Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0996078207
- The Best Disguise, University of Evansville Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-930982-68-3
- Holding Patterns, Finishing Line Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-59924-096-1
Anthologies
- Currents of the Universal Being: Explorations in the Literature of Energy, Texas Tech University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0896729285
- Irresistible Sonnets, Headmistress Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0615931517
- Villanelles, Everyman's Library, 2012, ISBN 978-0307957863
- The Best of The Barefoot Muse, Barefoot Muse Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0615570730
- The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems, Red Hen Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1597091329
- Hot Sonnets, Entasis Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0980099997
- Kiss and Part: Laughing at the End of Romance and Other Entanglements, Doggerel Daze Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0972282024
- Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets University of Evansville Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-930982-59-1