- Juliana Spahr
Juliana Spahr (born
1966 ) is an Americanpoet , critic, and editor.Life
Born and raised in Chillicothe,
Ohio , Spahr received her BA fromBard College in Languages and Literatures and her PhD from theUniversity at Buffalo, The State University of New York in English. She has taught atSiena College (1996-7), theUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa (1997-2003), andMills College (2003-). WithJena Osman , she edits the arts journal "Chain".Bibliography
Poetry
*"Nuclear" (Leave Books, 1994) - [http://www.durationpress.com/authors/spahr/home.html full text]
*"Response" (Sun & Moon Press, 1996) - [http://www.ubu.com/ubu/spahr_response.html full text]
*"Spiderwasp or Literary Criticism" (Explosive Books, 1998)
*"Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You" (Wesleyan University Press, 2001)
*"Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another" (Newfield, NY: Palm Press, 2003)ISBN 0-9743181-0-8
*"This Connection of Everyone With Lungs" (University of California Press, 2005)
*"The Transformation" (Berkeley, CA : Atelos Press, 2007)Criticism
*"Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity" (University of Alabama Press, 2001)
Editor
*"Writing from the New Coast: Technique" (essay collection) Co-editor with
Peter Gizzi . (Stockbridge:O-blek Editions, 1993)
*"A Poetics of Criticism" (essay collection) Co-editor with Mark Wallace,Kristin Prevallet , andPam Rehm . (Buffalo: Leave Books, 1993)
*"Chain" [co-edited withJena Osman ] , since 1994 [http://www.temple.edu/chain full text]
*"American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language" [co-edited withClaudia Rankine ] , (Wesleyan University Press, 2002)
*"Poetry and Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary" [co-edited withJoan Retallack ] , (Palgrave, 2006)External links
* [http://people.mills.edu/jspahr Archival Webpage]
* [http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/jspahr.htm "Poetic Profile" at Chicago Postmodern Poetry] , including an elaborate diagram of her (self-identified) influences
* [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Summer05/Spahr/Juliana_Spahr_Q-n-A.html A Brief Q&A with Juliana Spahr]
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